György Pálfi

György Pálfi ( born April 11, 1974 in Budapest) is a Hungarian film director.

His film career began at the age of 14 years, when he took over a small acting role in István Györgyi Szalai A Dárdays and documentor (1988). The spectacle was on Pálfi to devote himself to directing. In 1997 he published his satirical short film A Hal.

After the director had in 2000 completed his studies at the Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest, he began filming his first feature film Hukkle - The Village. This completely without dialogue auskommende film, a lot of working with sounds, depicting life in a rural village in Hungary, was shown at over 100 film festivals and in many movie theaters from 2002 throughout the world. Pálfi won several awards, including the prize for " best new director " at the Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián and the Fassbinder Prize at the award ceremony of the European Film Awards.

In 2003 he was involved with a segment of the Hungarian episode film Jött egy ... busz. This was followed in 2006, his second feature film that spans three generations extending grotesque comedy Taxidermia. This film won, among others, the main prize at the Hungarian Film Week and was, as already Hukkle - the village in 2003, sent as the Hungarian candidate for a nomination as " Best Foreign Language Film " at the Academy Awards 2008.