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- Camera and Electrical Department
- Actor
Along with László Kovács, a fellow student who fled Hungary in 1956, Zsigmond rose to prominence in the 1970s. He is known for his use of natural light and vivid use of color on features such as The Long Goodbye (1973) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).- Actor
- Casting Department
- Additional Crew
Adam Boncz graduated from the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York, and performed on the New York stages for more than 10 years including LaMaMa ETC, Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. He has also appeared in several international film and TV productions, including the Netflix fantasy series Shadow & Bone, Sky Channel's The Fear Index and the new CBS crime series FBI: International.- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Gábor Hevér was born on 13 March 1969 in Szeged, Hungary. He is an actor and director, known for Papsajt (2002), 129 (2023) and Aranyélet (2015).- Panka Kovacs was born on 6 July 1996 in Szeged, Hungary. She is an actress, known for Hercules (2014), 200 elsö randi (2018) and Now or Never! (2024).
- Suzanna Urszuly was born on 31 October 1974 in Szeged, Hungary. She is an actress, known for The Job (2003), Timber Falls (2007) and Bad Girls from Valley High (2005).
- Actor
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Producer
Barnabas Reti has become famous in Hungary for his ongoing lead role in Baratok kozt, the country's number 1 TV-series as Erik, a romantic male-lead and bad-boy. He was born in 1982, in Szeged, Hungary. As a very impressive talent in drawing and painting, everybody thought he was going to be a painter or a graphic artist. Although he used to do illustrations for local newspapers as a teenager, his real passion for acting and movies led him to try drama school after the age of 18. He went to Budapest to learn acting and started to work in several theaters. He was first chosen by Peter Greenaway to play a young fascist soldier in his actual film shot on location in Hungary. Another minor on-screen role followed in Being Julia by Academy Award-winner Hungarian director Istvan Szabo where Barnabas played Bruce Greenwood's gay lover. After 3 years of intensive stage training in Budapest, he traveled to the United States to attend an acting for film course at the New York Film Academy. Returning back to Europe he started his own theatre company, Noir Színház, with young artists and made his critically acclaimed debut as a director with Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie where he also played the leading role as Tom, the poet. The show toured in Romania and Hungary with great reviews. Then he was invited to Baratok kozt, the most popular TV-show in Hungary for a 3 year-contract witch made him famous and popular countrywide. As a well-known TV-star he carried on acting on stage in dramas, comedies and musicals and has been continuously working with his theater group becoming a fresh new point of the underground theatre scene of Budapest. Their production of Stephen King's Misery with him as the male lead has became such a hit success that it went from a small studio to Karinthy Theatre, one of the most popular stages of Budapest. He has played various characters on stage in plays of different genres from drama to comedy. The title role of Albert Camus' classic 'Caligula' was his last Hungarian performance before he moved to London to seek for more international opportunities. He played infamous murderer Krytian Bala in Sky Vision's upcoming TV crime-docu series 'Killers - Behind the Myth', worked with Tom Cruise in 'Mission Impossible -Rogue Nation and appeared in American networks series. He's currently appearing on 'Emerald City' by NBC Universal and filming a British feature 'Three Dots and a Dash' playing lead villain, Vogler Kassir.- Actor
- Director
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Zsolt Anger was born on 4 May 1969 in Szeged, Hungary. He is an actor and director, known for Red Sparrow (2018), A nyomozó (2008) and Vault (2018).- Marina Gera is an Emmy Award-winning actress.
She was born in the city of Szeged in Hungary, and is the first Hungarian actor to win an International Emmy Award. By the time she was two years old, she had already decided that she wanted to be an actress and she stepped on stage for the first time at the age of five. She graduated in acting in 2008 from the prestigious University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest. After university, she joined a newly founded Hungarian theatre company, which had a focus on international co-productions. Marina has worked extensively in Budapest, Parma, Moscow, and Graz as well as performing widely across Europe.
Since her primary interest has always been film, she developed her theatre and film career in parallel from the start. She has worked with the multiple Cannes award winner Kornél Mundruczó, starred in György Pálfi's Free Fall (Szabadesés, 2014), which received several awards at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, and appeared in the Hungarian original hit series from HBO Europe, Easy Living (Aranyélet, 2016), that has also been screened in the US.
Although she has appeared in several films and television series, her lead role as Irén in Örök tél (Eternal Winter) in 2018 was a breakthrough role for her, having been cast by the director Attila Szász in 2017. The role involved special preparation, with Marina reducing her weight to 46 kilograms before shooting. For her performance, she received awards for best actress at three international festivals (Tiburon International Film Festival (California, USA),Festival de Cinema Avanca (Portugal), Kyiv International Film Festival Kinolitopys (Ukraine)), and she won the Emmy for Best Performance by an Actress at the end of 2019. It was her first lead role in a tv movie, the first Hungarian Emmy nomination and she is the first ever Hungarian to win an International Emmy.
Since Eternal Winter has screened, there has been increasing international interest in Marina. She has worked with English film director Peter Strickland, and is working former BBC commissioner Adam Kemp at Aenon Ltd, to develop film ideas with Marina in mind. She is also working on writing her own original screenplay, about the dramatic coming-of-age story of an Eastern European actress. In her home country, she recently starred in the television film Nino bárkája, directed by Bence Miklauzic, which was released in December 2019, with Marina portraying a woman suffering from Tourette syndrome. - Zoltán Gera was born on 19 August 1923 in Szeged, Hungary. He was an actor, known for Victory (1981), A Tenkes kapitánya (1964) and Citizen X (1995). He was married to Helga Görgey and Livia Ránki. He died on 7 November 2014 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Writer
- Actor
- Director
Béla Balázs was born on 4 August 1884 in Szeged, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was a writer and actor, known for The Threepenny Opera (1931), Sonntag des Lebens (1931) and Karl Brunner (1936). He was married to Anna Hamvassy and Edit Olga Hajós. He died on 17 May 1949 in Budapest, Hungary.- Lukács Bicskey was born on 11 May 1961 in Szeged, Hungary. He was an actor, known for The Eagle (2011), Spy (2015) and Robin Hood (2006). He was married to Kincsö Pethö. He died on 8 April 2015 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Art Director
- Art Department
- Production Designer
Zsuzsanna Borvendég was born on 1 July 1972 in Szeged, Hungary. She is an art director and production designer, known for The Eagle (2011), The Rite (2011) and In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011).- Péter Dániel Katona was born on 21 July 1997 in Szeged, Hungary. He is an actor, known for Stranger, Boys on Film 23: Dangerous to Know (2023) and S.E.R.E.G. (2024).
- Actor
- Director
- Script and Continuity Department
Szilárd Várnai was born on 8 September 1970 in Szeged, Hungary. He is an actor and director, known for 7Liars (2023), Knorx (2019) and Schlechte Helden oder ein Lama namens Beethoven (2022).- András Fricsay Kali Son was born on 2 April 1942 in Szeged, Hungary. He is an actor, known for Die Eroberung der Zitadelle (1977), Die Feuerengel (1997) and Sierra Leone (1987).
- Director
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Writer
Fanni Szilágyi was born in 1986 in Szeged, Hungary. She is a director and writer, known for 129 (2023), A csatárnö bal lába életveszélyes (2017) and End of Puberty (2015).- Sándor Almási was born on 23 February 1975 in Szeged, Hungary. He is an actor, known for Csinibaba (1997), Valami Amerika (2002) and Ébrenjárók (2002).
- Zoltán Kempf aka Zozo Kempf is BMX rider from Gyula, Hungary born in 1996 in Szeged, Hungary. He became Amateur BMX World Champion in 2013 at BMX Worlds. He is known online for his popular YouTube channel, where he vlogs about his life as a professional BMX rider for more than 250,000 subscribers. Since 2018, he participated in multiple sports entertainment competition based TV shows, such as Ninja Warrior Hungary Season 2 or the Exatlon Hungary Season 2, where he finished 3. overall in the men's category with 107 episodes on the TV screens.
- Bernadett Gregor was born on 1 May 1972 in Szeged, Hungary. She is an actress, known for A Szent Lörinc folyó lazacai (2003), TV a város szélén (1998) and Gálvölgyi szubjektív (1994).
- Ilona Kassai was born on 8 July 1928 in Szeged, Hungary. She is an actress, known for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Captain Flame and A nyomozó (2008).
- Attila Lõte was born on 13 June 1934 in Szeged, Hungary. He is an actor, known for Ártatlan gyilkosok (1973), Az ördög cimborája (1973) and Sólyom a sasfészekben (1974).
- Director
- Writer
- Production Designer
Árpád Sopsits was born on 2 May 1952 in Szeged, Hungary. He is a director and writer, known for Torzók (2001), Strangled (2016) and Céllövölde (1990).- Actor
- Writer
- Additional Crew
Károly Kovalik was born on 29 September 1927 in Szeged, Hungary. He was an actor and writer, known for Age of Illusions (1965), Alfa Romeó és Júlia (1969) and Irány: Bagdad (1961). He died on 1 January 1995 in Budapest, Hungary.- Actress
Bea Lass was born on 21 October 1982 in Szeged, Hungary. She is an actress, known for Tea (2002), Our Women (2012) and Intim fejlövés (2009).- Animation Department
- Visual Effects
- Director
Peter Nagy was born in Szeged, Hungary as the second child of Istvan Nagy and Maria Sipos (his sister is Agnes). The young Peti's drawing skill has been showed early. In the elementary school he went the song-music section and in his childhood he used to sing several times at the "Szegedi Szabadteri Jatekok" (Carmen, Carmina Burana, Turandot). One of his first movie experience is the "One Hundred and One Dalmatians". His passion to the films developed during the college years. He made the final exam in 1997 at the Tomorkeny Istvan Art College at graphic section. After this he started work as an excavation graphic artist at the Mora Ferenc Museum. In 2001 his mother found a small advertisement in the local newspaper; this invited him to Kecskemet to take part on an animation course, which he passed successfully. "Corto Maltese: La cour secréte des Arcanes" was the first production in which he drawn as a clean up artist at this animation studio (Kecskemetfilm). At the end of this project came the news that the making of the "Mr. Bean: The Animated Series" beginning in Budapest. And young Peter hit the road to the capital city to try one's luck...