About

Known credits:
30
Birthday:
1947-07-19
Place of birth:
Budapest, Hungary
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Gyula Gazdag

Overview

Gyula Gazdag (born 19 July 1947 in Budapest) is a Hungarian film director, screenwriter and actor. Gyula Gazdag is a director of film, theater and television. He was a professor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television from 1993-2015 and has served as the artistic director of the Sundance Filmmakers Lab since 1997.

His numerous feature films include A Hungarian Fairy Tale (1987), which won the Special Jury Prize at the Locarno Film Festival. Named one of the year’s 10 Best Films by the Village Voice and the Best Feature Film of the year by the Hungarian Film Critics Awards, it screened at 20 film festivals worldwide, including the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes.

Gazdag’s other films include Stand Off (1989), which won a Special Jury Prize at the San Sebastián International Film Festival; Lost Illusions (1983), named Best Screenplay by Hungarian Film Week; Singing on the Treadmill (1974); The Whistling Cobblestone(1971), named Best First Feature by the Hungarian Film Critics Awards; and Swap.

Gazdag has also directed many documentaries, including A Poet on the Lower East Side: A Docu-Diary on Allen Ginsberg (1997); Hungarian Chronicles (1991); Berlinale Forum entrant Package Tour (1985); The Banquet (1982); The Resolution (1972), named on one of the best 100 documentaries of all time by the International Documentary Association; The Selection (1970) and The Long Distance Runner (1969).

Most of Gazdag’s films were banned for shorter or longer periods of time in communist Hungary; some also had been denied foreign exhibition. For the stage, he directed Candide, The Bald Soprano, The Abduction From the Seraglio, The Tempest, Tom Jones and The Hothouse, among many others. Gazdag has been a creative advisor at the Maurits Binger Film Institute in Amsterdam since 2002 and at the Script Station of the Berlinale Talent Campus since 2006.

Known for

Acting
2010 Negative history of Hungarian cinema Actor Self N/A
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1985 Colonel Redl Actor Oberleutnant Ehrlich 60
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1980 Confidence Actor 59
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Directing
1997 A Poet from the Lower East Side Directing Director N/A
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1989 Stand off Directing Director N/A
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1987 A Hungarian Fairy Tale Directing Director 59
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1985 Package Tour Directing Director N/A
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1983 Lost Illusions Directing Director 59
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1979 A három jószívű rabló Directing Director N/A
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1978 Swap Directing Director N/A
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1974 Bastion Promenade Seventy Four Directing Director 59
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1972 The Resolution Directing Director N/A
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1972 Az ítélet Directing Director N/A
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1971 The Whistling Cobblestone Directing Director N/A
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1970 Selection Directing Director 59
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1968 Long Distance Runner Directing Director 58
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1966 Prelude Directing Director N/A
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1957 The banquet Directing Director N/A
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Writing
1989 Stand off Writing Screenplay N/A
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1987 A Hungarian Fairy Tale Writing Writer 59
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1983 Lost Illusions Writing Writer 59
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1974 Bastion Promenade Seventy Four Writing Screenplay 59
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1971 The Whistling Cobblestone Writing Screenplay N/A
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1966 Prelude Writing Screenplay N/A
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Crew
2013 American Road Crew Thanks N/A
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Editing
1975 Requiem for a Revolutionary Editing Editor N/A
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1974 Bastion Promenade Seventy Four Editing Editor 59
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1972 The Resolution Editing Editor N/A
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1971 The Whistling Cobblestone Editing Editor N/A
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1968 Long Distance Runner Editing Editor 58
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