Kornél Mundruczó

Kornel Mundruczó ( born April 3, 1975 in Gödöllő ) is a Hungarian film director.

Life

Kornel Mundruczó studied theater and film directing at the Hungarian drama and film school in Budapest. His first short film Afta ( day after day ) was invited to the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2001. Since the beginning he has realized most of his productions together with Viktoria Petrányi. His first feature film Szép napok ( Pleasant Days ) was awarded the Silver Leopard in Locarno in 2002. Johanna is a filmic opera adaptation of the story of Joan of Arc 2005 and ran at the film festival in Cannes in the Un Certain Regard. The movie was Delta 2008 in Cannes awarded the FIPRESCI Prize.

As a theater director Vladimir Sorokin's novel he has brought ice to the stage. In the season 2009/10 he directed The Gospel of Judas or betrayal is your Passion at the Thalia Theatre in Hamburg. Mundruczós theater work It is not easy being a god was to be shown in the context of theater in the world 2010 in Essen and awarded in November 2011 at the Festival Policy outdoor theater in Dresden with the grand prize. At the spectacle Hanover were of him Eszter Solymosi 2011 by Tiszaeszlár. To see the history of an indictment and Betrothal in Santo Domingo or MY SWEET HAITI. His film Szép napok he adapted in 2012 in the Theater Oberhausen Beautiful days. A proletarian operetta for the 21st century for the stage, the German translation worried Orsolya Kalász and Monika Rinck. For the Vienna Festival in 2012 Mundruczó adapted the novel by JM Coetzee shame in Hungarian, Szégyen, for the stage.

In Hungary, he was honored in 2003 with the " Béla Balázs price ".