Gábor Bódy

Gábor Bódy

Gábor Bódy (30 August 1946 – 24 October 1985) was a Hungarian film director, screenwriter, theoretic, and occasional actor. A pioneer of experimental filmmaking and film language, Bódy is one of the most important figures of Hungarian cinema. Bódy was born in Budapest, in an urban middle-class family. He studied history and philosophy at Loránd Eötvös University and later filmmaking at the Academy for Theater and Film Arts. During his university days he became an influential member of the Béla Balázs Stúdió (BBS). He made his first film A Harmadik (The Third) (a documentary about students preparing an adaptation of Faust on stage) in 1971. He established various experimental and avantgarde projects at BBS including the Film Language Series in 1973 and the K/3 experimental film group in 1976, reshaping the postwar Hungarian avantgarde film's path. In 1975 he completed his debut feature at BBS, which was also his graduation thesis film at the university. Amerikai Anzix (American Torso) won the Grand Prize for best new filmmaker at International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg and the Hungarian Film Critics prize for best first film. The film which depicts the lives of Hungarian 1848 Revolution veterans in the American Civil War features Bódy's experimentalism at the fullest. The whole film was re-edited using his own method called "light editing" in order to make it resemble a wracked silent film from the late 19th century. His next feature Nárcisz és Psyché was the largest-scale Hungarian production of its era. This epic production based on Sándor Weöres's poetic work Psyché starred Patricia Adriani, Udo Kier and György Cserhalmi and exists in three versions: an original 210min two part version, a 136min version for foreign distribution and a 270min three part television version.  In 1980 Bódy began to work on the first international video magazine INFERMENTAL and managed to publish the first of 10 issues (plus one special issue) while on a residency at DAAD Berliner Küunstlerprogram in 1982. The series published featured a range of guest editors and in total included work from over 1500 artists from 36 countries and was published up to 1991. After many frustrated projects Bódy managed to complete what was to become his final feature film Kutya éji dala (Dog's Night Song). Bódy cast himself as the lead in this ambitious and influential feature which incorporated Super8 and video footage as well as a range of Hungarian underground punk bands (Galloping Coroners, Trabant) of the time in order to a film "deeply rooted in the fundamentals of today's reality." In 1985 Bódy died under sketchy circumstances. A later published information (2001) hints his earlier collaboration (1973–1983) with the Hungarian Secret Police, the III/III. Authorities of the time (Hungary was then considered a 'satellite' country of the Soviet Union) stated that he had killed himself. His widow instead preferred a charge of murder against certain unidentified parties. No official investigation followed and Bódy's fate remains a mystery to this day. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gábor Bódy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Gábor Bódy
  • Popularity: 0.369
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1946-08-30
  • Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary
  • Homepage: http://bodygabor.hu/
  • Also Known As: Bódy Gábor
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Gábor Bódy Movies

  • 1983
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    Dog's Night Song

    Dog's Night Song

    6.2 1983 HD

    A priest arrives in a village and give advice and comfort to different people. He meets a wheelchair-bound former representative of the Communist...

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  • 1971
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    The Agitators

    The Agitators

    6.7 1971 HD

    After the World War I, enthusiastic young people found the intellectual group of Hungarian Communist Party. Their aim is to propagate the communist...

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  • 1984
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    Point of Departure

    Point of Departure

    1 1984 HD

    This documentary feature film is set in a two-storey villa, where three generations live together representing four different scales of values and...

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  • 1980
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    Narcissus and Psyche

    Narcissus and Psyche

    6.5 1980 HD

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  • 1980
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    Narcissus and Psyche

    Narcissus and Psyche

    6.5 1980 HD

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  • 1983
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    Dog's Night Song

    Dog's Night Song

    6.2 1983 HD

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  • 1975
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    American Torso

    American Torso

    6.6 1975 HD

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  • 1975
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    Four Bagatelles

    Four Bagatelles

    7 1975 HD

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  • 1971
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    The Agitators

    The Agitators

    6.7 1971 HD

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  • 1978
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    Latest Fashion ('78 Spring-Summer)

    Latest Fashion ('78 Spring-Summer)

    1 1978 HD

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  • 1982
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    The Hostage

    The Hostage

    1 1982 HD

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  • 1983
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    The Occult Philosophy

    The Occult Philosophy

    1 1983 HD

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  • 1983
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    Novalis - Walzer

    Novalis - Walzer

    1 1983 HD

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  • 1985
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    Dancing Eurynome

    Dancing Eurynome

    1 1985 HD

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  • 1983
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    Dog's Night Song

    Dog's Night Song

    6.2 1983 HD

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  • 1976
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    Aldrin Opera

    Aldrin Opera

    1 1976 HD

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  • 1975
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    Four Bagatelles

    Four Bagatelles

    7 1975 HD

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  • 1975
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    American Torso

    American Torso

    6.6 1975 HD

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  • 1982
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    Siblings

    Siblings

    1 1982 HD

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  • 1985
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    Theory of Cosmetics

    Theory of Cosmetics

    1 1985 HD

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  • 1984
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    Either/Or In Chinatown

    Either/Or In Chinatown

    1 1984 HD

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  • 1985
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    Theory of Cosmetics

    Theory of Cosmetics

    1 1985 HD

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  • 1971
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    A harmadik

    A harmadik

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1972
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    The Legend About the Death and Resurrection of Two Young Men

    The Legend About the Death and Resurrection of Two Young Men

    1 1972 HD

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  • 1983
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    He Saw Her Burning

    He Saw Her Burning

    1 1983 HD

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  • 1982
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    Der Dämon in Berlin

    Der Dämon in Berlin

    1 1982 HD

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  • 1978
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    Private History

    Private History

    1 1978 HD

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  • 1972
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    Egy bagatell

    Egy bagatell

    1 1972 HD

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  • 1978
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    Conversation Between East and West

    Conversation Between East and West

    1 1978 HD

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  • 1976
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    Self-Fashion Show

    Self-Fashion Show

    6.5 1976 HD

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  • 1976
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    Self-Fashion Show

    Self-Fashion Show

    6.5 1976 HD

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  • 1971
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    The Agitators

    The Agitators

    6.7 1971 HD

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  • 1975
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    American Torso

    American Torso

    6.6 1975 HD

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  • 1972
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    A Statement about Jealousy

    A Statement about Jealousy

    1 1972 HD

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