Kornél Mundruczó | |
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Born | Gödöllő, Hungary | 3 April 1975
Nationality | Hungarian |
Occupation(s) | Film and theatre director |
Years active | 1996–present |
Kornél Mundruczó (Hungarian: [ˈkorneːl ˈmundrut͡soː]; born 3 April 1975) is a Hungarian film and theatre director. He has directed 18 short and feature films between 1998 and 2020. His film Johanna was screened in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.[1] The production of White God, another of his full-length films, was supported by the Hungarian Film Fund.[2] It won the Prize Un Certain Regard at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival[3][4][5] and was screened in the Spotlight section of Sundance Film Festival in 2015.[6]
Early life
[edit]Mundruczó earned a diploma from Hungary's Academy of Film and Drama in 1998 as an actor, then in 2003 as a film and television director.[7] In that same year, he founded Proton Cinema Ltd., dedicated to film production, along with Viktória Petrányi, a constant co-creator and collaborator in his work and writing since the academy.[8]
Career
[edit]Film
[edit]Mundruczó's first full-length feature This I wish and nothing more[9] won, among other prizes, the award for best first film at the 31st Hungarian Film Week,[10] as well as its Students’ Jury and Directors’ Guild Awards.[11] He directed his short film Afta[12] shortly after leaving school.[when?] It went on to win numerous international awards.[citation needed] Pleasant Days,[13][14] his second feature film, was awarded the Silver Leopard in Locarno in 2002.[15][16] In 2003, he won the Cinéfondation Program's artistic grant, within the framework of the Cannes International Film Festival, where he developed the screenplay of the film Delta, together with Yvette Bíró in Paris.[17]
He has been a member of the European Film Academy since 2004.[18][19] In 2005, he won the Nipkow Program's artistic grant[20] to participate for three months in courses and consultations for talented screenwriters and directors in Berlin. His fourth, fifth, and seventh feature-length films were entered in the official competition of Cannes Film Festival: Delta in 2008, Tender Son in 2010[21] and Jupiter's Moon in 2017.[22] The first won the FIPRESCI Award.[23]
In 2014, his film, White God – which was invited to Cannes Film Festival and made with the support of Eurimages, the European Council's film foundation and the Hungarian National Film Foundation[24] – won the main prize of the Un Certain Regard program at the 67th Cannes Film Festival.[25] Also, the film's canine star won the Palm Dog Award for best performance by a dog.[26] His first English-language feature, Pieces of a Woman, was in Competition at 77th Venice International Film Festival.[citation needed]
In 2021, his film Evolution premiered in the new section of 2021 Cannes Film Festival, called Cannes Premiere, designed to give returning Cannes auteurs a safe place to screen new work outside of the competition.[27]
Theatre
[edit]Mundruczó has worked in theatre and opera since 2003, first in Hungary and then in theatres abroad such as the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, the TR Warszawa, the Schauspielhaus Zürich and the Vlaamse Opera. He is most keen to begin new projects where he finds the subject, collaborators and venue inspiring. During the creative process, he strives to create a team. For new projects, he very often casts the same actors, who work with him as creative partners. After freelancing with more or less the same group of people for several years, in 2009, he founded Proton Theatre,[28] his independent theatre company, with producer Dóra Büki.[29]
Proton Theatre is a virtual artistic company organised around the director's independent productions. Besides preserving maximum artistic freedom, their goal is to ensure a professional structure for their independently produced theatre plays and projects. Chiefly, their performances are realized as international co-productions, and their frequent collaborators include the Wiener Festwochen,[30] HAU Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin,[31] Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels,[32] Trafó House of Contemporary Arts in Budapest[33] and Hellerau in Dresden.[34] Productions directed by the artistic leader include The Ice (2006);[35] Frankenstein-project (2007), which inspired his later film Tender Son;[36][37] Hard to be a God (2010);[38] Disgrace (2012), based on the post-apartheid novel by Nobel Prize-winner J. M. Coetzee and, in turn, inspiring his film White God;[39] Dementia (2014),[40] Winterreise (2015),[41] Imitation of Life (2016),[42] The Raft of the Medusa (2018),[43] Evolution (2019)[44] inspiring his film with the same title[45] and The Seven Deadly Sins/Motherland (2020).[46][47] In addition, Proton wishes to provide space for the realisation of company members’ ideas. In this spirit, they created the following performances: Last (2014), directed by Roland Rába;[48] 1 link (2015), directed by Gergely Bánki[49] and Finding Quincy by János Szemenyei.
Proton's performances have toured to more than 110 festivals until 2020,[50] including the Festival d’Avignon,[51] the Adelaide Festival,[52] the Singapore International Festival,[53] the Seoul Bo:m Festival, and the Zürcher Theater Spektakel.[54] In 2017, for Imitation of life, Mundruczó was nominated for the Faust Award. It was the first time in the history of this award that a non-German theatre, in this case a Hungarian independent company was nominated.[55][56]
Since 2017, Mundruczó has been nominated for the Europe Prize Theatrical Realities of the Europe Theatre Prize.[57]
Filmography
[edit]Year | Film | Genre/type | Notes |
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2000 | This I Wish and Nothing More | feature (78 min.) |
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2001 | AFTA - Day after day | short (25 min.) | |
2002 | Pleasant Days | feature (85 min.) |
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2002 | Little Apocrypha no. 1 | short (5 min.) | |
2003 | Joan of Arc on the Night Bus | short opera (24 min.) |
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2004 | Little Apocrypha no. 2 | short (15 min.) |
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2005 | Lost and Found - Short Lasting Silence | short (20 min.) | |
2005 | Johanna | feature (83 min.) |
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2008 | Delta | feature (92 min.) |
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2010 | Tender Son | feature (105 min.) |
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2014 | White God | feature (119 min.) |
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2017 | Jupiter's Moon | feature (129 min.) |
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2020 | Pieces of a Woman | feature (115 min.) |
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2021 | Evolution | feature (97 min.) |
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TBA | At the Sea | feature | |
The Revolution According to Kamo | feature |
Theatre
[edit]Year | Title | Theatre | Notes |
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2020 | The Seven Deadly Sins/Motherland | Theater Freiburg, Germany; Proton Theatre, Budapest, Hungary | |
2019 | Evolution | Ruhrtriennale, Bochum, Germany; Proton Theatre, Budapest, Hungary | A performance lying on the boundary between the genres of concert and theatre[62] |
2019 | Liliom | Thalia Theater, Hamburg, Germany; Salzburger Festspiele, Austria | Suburban legend in seven scenes by Ferenc Molnár (1878–1952)[63] |
2018 | Pieces of a Woman | TR Warszawa, Poland | |
2018 | The Raft of the Medusa | Ruhrtriennale, Bochum, Germany; Proton Theatre, Budapest, Hungary | |
2017 | The Weavers | Thalia Theatre Hamburg, Germany | A play written by the German playwright Gerhart Hauptmann in 1892[66] |
2016 | Imitation of life | Proton Theatre, Budapest, Hungary |
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2015 | Winterreise | CAFe Budapest Contemporary Arts Festival; Danubia Orchestra Óbuda; Proton Theatre, Budapest, Hungary | |
2014 | Hotel Lucky Hole – 3rd part of the suicide trilogy | Schauspielhaus Zürich, Switzerland | |
2013 | Dementia – 2nd part of the suicide trilogy | Proton Theatre, Budapest, Hungary |
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2012 | The Bat or my Little Cemetery – 1st part of the suicide trilogy | TR Warszawa, Poland |
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2012 | Disgrace | Proton Theatre, Budapest, Hungary |
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2012 | Pleasant Days | Theater Oberhausen, Germany | |
2011 | Betrothal in St. Domingo or my Sweet Haiti | Staatstheater Hannover, Germany | |
2011 | Time of the Possessed | Thalia Theatre Hamburg, Germany | |
2010 | Eszter Solymosi of Tiszaeszlár | Staatstheater Hannover, Germany | |
2010 | Hard to be a God | Proton Theatre, Budapest, Hungary |
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2009 | Gospel of Judas | Thalia Theatre Hamburg, Germany | |
2007 | Frankenstein-project | Bárka Theatre, Budapest, Hungary | |
2006 | The Ice | Krétakör Company, Budapest, Hungary |
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2006 | Caligula | Radnóti Theatre, Budapest, Hungary | |
2005 | Zérus - the poems of Sinead Morrissey | Trafó House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest, Hungary | |
2004 | Nibelung-Residency | Krétakör Company, Budapest, Hungary |
Opera
[edit]Year | Title | Theatre | Notes |
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2022 | Tannhäuser | Staatsoper Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany | |
2016 | The Makropulos Affair | Vlaamse Opera, Antwerpen, Belgium |
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2014 | Bluebeard's Castle / Winterreise | Vlaamse Opera, Ghent, Belgium |
An unconventional combination of two classical works. The sinister tale Bluebeard's Castle by Béla Bartók, which is shaped with astonishing orchestral strength, is juxtaposed with the intimate quietness of the piano notes and singing voice at the heart of Schubert's Winterreise.[86] |
2009 | Bluebeard's Castle | Budapest Spring Festival, Hungary | |
2003 | The Respectful Prostitute | Budapest Autumn Festival, Hungary |
Kamilló Lendvay's one-act opera, based on Jean-Paul Sartre's drama[87][88] |
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External links
[edit]- Proton Theatre
- Kornél Mundruczó at IMDb
- Kornél Mundruczó at PORT.hu (in Hungarian)