Géza Bereményi

Géza Bereményi
Born
Géza Vetró

(1946-01-25) 25 January 1946
Years active1972-present
Spouses
  • Tünde Hámos (1999-present) (2 children)[1]
  • Eszter Balás (1976-1999) (divorced) (1 child)
  • Udvarnoki Edit (1970-1972) (divorced) (1 child)
  • Szász-Bogdán Gyöngyvér (?-1976) (divorced)

Géza Sándor Bereményi (born 25 January 1946) is a Hungarian writer, play- and screenwriter, lyricist, film- and theatre director. He was awarded Best European Director for his film Eldorado at the 2nd European Film Awards.[2]

Biography

Born as Géza Sándor Vetró in Budapest, Hungary. He studied Hungarian and Italian Literature and Linguistics at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, graduating in 1970. He afterwards worked for the marketing department of a publishing house in Budapest for a few years; then he got a job translating films and fitting the text to the movement of actors' lips for dubbing. He worked on the Hungarian version of The Graduate among others, he quit in 1978.

In the seventies he began to publish short stories and novels. He also wrote plays and screenplays. Among his first performed plays were Poremba (1976, Stúdió K Theatre), Légköbméter (1978, Pest Theatre) and Halmi (1979).

His best known realized film script is Time Stands Still (1981, directed by Péter Gothár). He started working as a film director since the eighties. His biggest success was Eldorado (Midas Touch).

In 1995, he joined Szigligeti Theatre in Szolnok as a director and playwright. Between 1997 and 2006, he was the artistic director of Hevesi Sándor Theatre in Zalaegerszeg. Between 2012 and 2017, he was theatre director of Thália Theatre in Budapest, he stayed on as artistic advisor after he resigned from running the theatre in 2017.

He is a member of The Hungarian Academy of Arts.

References

  1. ^ "Tünde Hámos". My Heritage. Retrieved 7 April 2023.
  2. ^ "European Film Academy: Archive". members.europeanfilmacademy.org. Retrieved 7 April 2023.