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Zsolt Pozsgai
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Playwright, theatre and film director
Born 1960, Pécs, Hungary – Europe
Married with two daughters (23, 24)
Completed his secondary education in Pécs. At the age of 14 he was already directing
an independent amateur theatre company in the city. After secondary school, he
tried several jobs as he wished to gain varied experience for his chosen career as a
playwright. Thus he was an ambulance man, the director of a village community
centre, a teaching assistant in a village school, a driver, a postman and
gynaecological theatre assistant. At the same time he studied Hungarian at Pécs
University as a correspondent student. The amateur theatre became a recognised
alternative company. When he was 24, he “signed on” with the Pécs National
Theatre, working first as an assistant director and then as the theatre’s secretary and
dramaturge. When the theatre’s principal director, whom he regarded as his master,
left, he too left the National Theatre and found a position with a book publisher. In
the meanwhile he did his national service as an air traffic controller for fighter
aircraft. It was then he wrote his first play, Horatio, which was premiered a year later
in the Hevesi Sándor Theatre in Zalaegerszeg. In 1988 he was commissioned with
founding a contemporary book publishing house in Budapest, of which he was the
managing director until 1996. In addition he worked as a dramaturge for a number of
theatres – the Madách Theatre, the Arizona Theatre and the Magyar Theatre in
Budapest, and, to the present day, he is honorary dramaturge and resident author at
two provincial theatres, the Jókai in Békéscsaba and the Katona József in Kecskemét.
Currently he is the artistic director of the Budapest inner city theatre Komédium
Theatre, the artistic director of the Pécsvárad Castle Theatre operating in the summer
season and dramaturge at the Magyar Theatre in Budapest.
Now the artistic director of the New Theatre, Budapest, and working in the
Hungarian Cultur Academy. Worked in many international jury /Bahgdad, Tehran,
New Delhi/
General director of the HORATIO FILM Ltd. /www.horatiofilm.com/
His first play, Horatio, was performed in 1988, since when his dramatic works have
been regularly performed at theatres in Hungary. By the end of 2005, 62 pieces,
including tragedies, comedies, farces, fairy plays and plays with music, had been
premiered in 54 theatres. Over the last eight years or so he has directed most of his
dramatic works himself.
A number of works have been performed abroad: Red Faust in English at the Bates
Theater, Boston, USA; two pieces in German in two consecutive seasons at the
summer theatre in Graz, Austria, LISELOTTE IN MAY, and MERRY MADMEN; also
in Graz, at the Kellertheater PROPHET WALTZ; and LISELOTTE IN MAY at the
Montana National Theatre in Bulgaria and at the Stip National Theatre in the
Republic of Macedonia. Most recently, he directed his piece based on a novel by
Sándor Márai in the Théâtre de l'Orangerie in Geneva, Switzerland, in the summer of
2005. Mozart and Constanze was on the programme in two series at the
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Kammelspiele in Hamburg in 2006 and a third is planned in 2007. The French
language version of LISELOTTE IN MAY will have its first performed in spring 2007
in Geneva.
Awards:
- Europa Prize – Berlin Playwrights Festival, 1995, for “Arthur and Paul”
- Szép Ernő Prize – best new Hungarian play award, 1994, for “Wax Bird”
(Viaszmadár), Madách Theatre, Budapest
- Hungarian Playwrights Festival 1997 – first place, professional and spectators’
prizes
- Hungarian Playwrights Festival 1998 – first place, professional and spectators’
prizes
- Hungarian Playwrights Festival 1999 – first place, professional and spectators’
prizes
- Golden Lion Prize – best dramatist – Grand Prize of the Persian Academy
Filmography
Playwright and director:
CSENDKÚT (SILENCE FOUNTAIN)
Feature film about the life of Attila Gérecz.
Borbálafilm.
Screenwriter, director. (2007)
A NEMZET SZÍNÉSZEI I-III (2005) (ACTORS AND ACTRESSES OF THE
NATION I-III)
-documentaryscreenwriter, director, producer – Horatio Film production
A HUN VÖLGY TITKAI (2007) (SECRETS OF THE VAL D’ANNIVIERS)
-documentaryWriter, director
SZABADSÁGHARC SZEBENBEN (FREEDOM FIGHT IN SZEBEN)
-television feature film- (2007)
Writer, director
A FÖLD SZERETŐJE (ZSOLNAY VILMOS) (THE LOVER OF THE SOIL/
feature film (2010) www.theloverofthesoil.com
writer, director, producer – Horatio Film production
JANUS /a film about a Hungarian poet from the XV. century/
-feature film- /2010/
writer, director, premier 2010 july
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APOLKA
-feature film - /2012/
writer, director
MOLTO PAVANE
-television play - /2014/
writer, director
FÖLDINDULÁS
-feature film- /2014/
writer, director
SZERETLEK, FAUST /I LOVE YOU, FAUST/
-feature film - /2016/
writer, director
Television series:
ÉRETLENEK (THE IMMATURE)
Writing the screenplay for 26 episodes.
-The Immature is about the everyday life of teenagers in a secondary school in
Budapest. It relates what they get up to together, their love affairs and school life.
The target audience is young people. The series was shown on Magyar Television
and has been repeated with great success several times. Screenplay available only in
Hungarian.
Magyar Television
1996-97, 40-minute episodes
Directed by Péter Gárdos
KISVÁROS (SMALL TOWN)
Sole scriptwriter 1997-2002
The only detective series on Magyar Television in the nineteen nineties. It was shown
in 50-minute episodes on Tuesday evenings every other week. The main character is
a police captain living in a small provincial town. The series shows his cases, life and
surroundings. Each episode deals with an independent crime as well as showing
constant personal problems. Life-like crimes, sometimes tragic, sometimes with a
lighter tone. Most Hungarian actors and actresses feature in the series.
To date 187 screenplays written alone./!!/The production shoots four parts at a
time. Screenplay available only in Hungarian.
Magyar Television. 50 minutes in prime time. Directed by Lajos Fazekas, Zsolt Balog,
Róbert Payer
CSALÁDI KÖR (FAMILY CIRCLE)
Short film series. 1999. Writing the screenplay for four episodes.
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Family Circle is a programme dealing with the problems of families. A thirty-minute
film by a well-known Hungarian film director is shown in each programme.
Directors of the four parts: János Xantus, Szonja El Eini (2 each).
Magyar Television.
Screenplay available only in Hungarian.
A BLACK ROSE VÁR TITKA (THE SECRET OF BLACK ROSE CASTLE)
All the screenplay for the 13-part youth, mystical series written for Satellit Film
(Munich).
50-minute episodes. The story is set in a Scottish castle, where a scientist is
experimenting and children try to reveal his secret, getting into adventures.
Currently being shot. A Satellit Film Munich and Magyar Television co-production.
German and Hungarian screenplays.
Directed by Barna Kabay.
ÉDES OTTHON (SWEET HOME)
All the screenplay for the 13-part television series. It is set in an old people’s home,
which is located in an old mansion, showing life in the home and the surrounding
village. Comedy series. Screenplay available only in Hungarian.
Ordered and purchased by Magyar Television. Under preparation.
BALATON KEMPING (BALATON CAMPSITE)
A 13-part erotic comedy series. Co-production by an Essen production agency and
the Hungarian commercial television station TV 2. It is set at Lake Balaton in the
summer. Five attractive bored young women from Budapest hire a campsite for a
season. The series shows the events of the summer. Writing all screenplays.
Currently two screenplays in German, the rest being translated.
Directed by Zoltán Máté.
TŰZVONALBAN (IN THE FIRING LINE) – one of the writers of the scripts for the
currently running series. Magyar Television.
Feature films:
Screenplays:
HETEDÍZIGLEN (THE SEVENTH TIME)
Feature film. Screenwriter. Hungarian Film Week: best screenplay. Best actress. Best
supporting actor.
Directed by Dezső Zsigmond (2003)
FEKETE MÉZ (BLACK HONEY)
Television film. Screenplay, co-director. Historical play about Zsuzsanna Lórántfy.
Broadcast: Magyar Television. (2003)
GÓLYAKALIFA (THE STORK CALIPH)
Television play based on the novel of the same title by Mihály Babits.
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Screenwriter, director and producer.
Broadcast: Magyar Television (2004) - Horatio Film production
KONYEC (THE END)
Original screenplay for feature film.
Directed by Gábor Rohonyi
Award winner at the 2007 Film Week
Contact:
[email protected]
00-36-30-2791324
www.pozsgai.com
Post: H-1122 Budapest, Ráth Gy. u. 34.
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