Gyula Gazdag

Gyula Gazdag

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.

  • Title: Gyula Gazdag
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  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1947-07-19
  • Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary
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Gyula Gazdag Movies

  • 2010
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    Negative history of Hungarian cinema

    Negative history of Hungarian cinema

    1 2010 HD

    Reconstructions of unrealized Hungarian films in cooperation with the greatest Hungarian film directors.

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  • 1985
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    Colonel Redl

    Colonel Redl

    6.8 1985 HD

    Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl, an ambitious young officer who...

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  • 1980
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    Confidence

    Confidence

    7.531 1980 HD

    Janos and Kata are thrown together during the Second World War and forced to pose as husband and wife to hide from the Nazis. The intensity and...

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  • 1987
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    A Hungarian Fairy Tale

    A Hungarian Fairy Tale

    5.4 1987 HD

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  • 1983
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    Lost Illusions

    Lost Illusions

    1 1983 HD

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  • 1983
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    Lost Illusions

    Lost Illusions

    1 1983 HD

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  • 1997
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    A Poet from the Lower East Side

    A Poet from the Lower East Side

    1 1997 HD

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  • 1978
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    Swap

    Swap

    1 1978 HD

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  • 1971
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    The Whistling Cobblestone

    The Whistling Cobblestone

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1971
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    The Whistling Cobblestone

    The Whistling Cobblestone

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1971
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    The Whistling Cobblestone

    The Whistling Cobblestone

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1989
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    Stand off

    Stand off

    1 1989 HD

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  • 1989
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    Stand off

    Stand off

    1 1989 HD

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  • 1974
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    Bastion Promenade Seventy Four

    Bastion Promenade Seventy Four

    6.2 1974 HD

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  • 1974
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    Bastion Promenade Seventy Four

    Bastion Promenade Seventy Four

    6.2 1974 HD

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  • 1972
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    The Resolution

    The Resolution

    1 1972 HD

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  • 1979
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    A három jószívű rabló

    A három jószívű rabló

    1 1979 HD

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  • 1957
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    The banquet

    The banquet

    1 1957 HD

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  • 1970
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    Selection

    Selection

    8 1970 HD

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  • 1968
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    Long Distance Runner

    Long Distance Runner

    5.5 1968 HD

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  • 1974
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    Bastion Promenade Seventy Four

    Bastion Promenade Seventy Four

    6.2 1974 HD

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  • 1972
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    The Resolution

    The Resolution

    1 1972 HD

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  • 1975
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    Requiem for a Revolutionary

    Requiem for a Revolutionary

    1 1975 HD

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  • 1985
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    Package Tour

    Package Tour

    1 1985 HD

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  • 2013
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    American Road

    American Road

    1 2013 HD

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  • 1966
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    Prelude

    Prelude

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1968
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    Long Distance Runner

    Long Distance Runner

    5.5 1968 HD

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  • 1987
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    A Hungarian Fairy Tale

    A Hungarian Fairy Tale

    5.4 1987 HD

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  • 1972
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    Az ítélet

    Az ítélet

    1 1972 HD

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  • 1966
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    Prelude

    Prelude

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1970
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    Mikor megszülettem...

    Mikor megszülettem...

    1 1970 HD

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