Kornél Mundruczó

Kornél Mundruczó (Hungarian: [ˈkorneːl ˈmundrut͡soː]; born 3 April 1975) is a Hungarian film and theatre director. He has directed 17 short and feature films between 1998 and 2017. 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]

The native form of this personal name is Mundruczó Kornél. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Kornél Mundruczó
Born (1975-04-03) 3 April 1975
Gödöllő, Hungary
NationalityHungarian
OccupationFilm and theatre director
Years active1996-present

Early life

Mundruczó who is half-Romanian[7] 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.[8] 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.[9]

Career

His first full-length feature This I wish and nothing more[10] won, among other prizes, the award for best first film at the 31st Hungarian Film Week,[11] as well as its Students’ Jury and Directors’ Guild Awards.[12] He directed his short film Afta[13] shortly after leaving school. It went on to win numerous international awards.[14] Pleasant Days,[15][16] his second feature film, was awarded the Silver Leopard in Locarno in 2002.[17][18]

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.[19]

He has been a member of the European Film Academy since 2004.[20][21]

In 2005, he won the Nipkow Program’s artistic grant[22] to participate for three months in courses and consultations for talented screenwriters and directors in Berlin.

Afterward, 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[23] and Jupiter's Moon in 2017.[24] The first won the FIPRESCI Award.[25]

In 2014, Kornél Mundruczó’s 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[26] – won the main prize of the Un Certain Regard program at the 67th Cannes Film Festival.[27] Also, the film’s canine star won the Palm Dog Award for best performance by a dog.[28]

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. It is with them that he devises the productions. After freelancing with more or less the same group of people for several years, in 2009, he founded Proton Theatre,[29] his independent theatre company, with producer Dóra Büki.[30]

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,[31] HAU Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin,[32] Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels,[33] Trafó House of Contemporary Arts in Budapest[34] and Hellerau in Dresden.[35] Productions directed by the artistic leader include The Ice (2006);[36] Frankenstein-project (2007), which inspired his later film Tender Son; [37][38] Hard to be a God (2010);[39] Disgrace (2012), based on the post-apartheid novel by Nobel Prize-winner J. M. Coetzee and, in turn, inspiring his film White God;[40] Dementia (2014);[41] Winterreise (2015);[42] and Imitation of Life (2016).[43] In addition, the Proton Theatre 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;[44] 1 link (2015), directed by Gergely Bánki;[45] and Finding Quincy by János Szemenyei.

Over these years, the Proton Theatre’s performances have toured to more than 100 festivals until 2018,[46] including the Festival d’Avignon,[47] the Adelaide Festival,[48] the Singapore International Festival,[49] the Seoul Bo:m Festival and the Zürcher Theater Spektakel.[50] In 2017 for his outstanding directorial achievement in their performance 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.[51][52] In August 2018, Mundruczó will direct Inherit the Earth.[53]

Filmography
YearFilmGenre/typeNotes
2020Pieces of a Womanfeature
2017Jupiter's Moonfeature (100 min.)
  • Official Selection - Cannes Film Festival 2017
2014White Godfeature (119 min.)
  • Un Certain Regard Prize - Cannes Film Festival 2014
  • Spotlight section - Sundance Film Festival 2015
2010Tender Sonfeature (105 min.)
  • Official Selection - Cannes Film Festival 2010
2008Deltafeature (92 min.)
  • FIPRESCI Award - Cannes Film Festival 2008
2005Johannafeature (83 min.)
  • Un Certain Regard - Cannes Film Festival 2005
2005Lost and Found - Short Lasting Silenceshort (20 min.)
2004Little Apocrypha no. 2short (15 min.)
  • Cinefondation Section - Cannes Film Festival 2004[54]
2003Joan of Arc on the Night Busshort opera (24 min.)
  • Director’s Fortnight - Cannes Film Festival 2003[55]
2002Little Apocrypha no. 1short (5 min.)
  • Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Oberhausen International Short Film Festival 2003[56][57]
2002Pleasant Daysfeature (85 min.)
  • Silver Leopard for the first or second feature film - Locarno International Film Festival 2002
2001AFTA - Day after dayshort (25 min.)
  • ARTE European Short Award - Oberhausen International Short Film Festival 2001[57]
  • Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Honorable Mention - Oberhausen International Short Film Festival 2001[56][57]
2000This I Wish and Nothing Morefeature (78 min.)
  • Best First Film - 31st Hungarian Film Festival 2000
  • Best Film - Students’ Jury - 31st Hungarian Film Festival 2000
  • Directors’ Guild Award for Best Direction
  • Best Film of the Year - Hungarian Film Critics’ Award 2001

Theatre
YearTitleTheatreNotes
2019Liliom - Suburban legend in seven scenes by Ferenc Molnár (1878 - 1952)[58]Salzburger Festspiele, Austria; Coproduction with the Thalia Theater, Hamburg
2017The Weavers by Gerhart Hauptmann[59]Thalia Theatre Hamburg, Germany
2016Imitation of lifeProton Theatre, Budapest, Hungary
  • Audience Award - Baltic House Festival 2017. Saint Petersburg, Russia[60]
  • Nominee for best direction: Kornél Mundruczó - Faust Award 2017.[51]
2015WinterreiseCAFe Budapest Contemporary Arts Festival, Danubia Orchestra Óbuda, Proton Theatre, Hungary
2014Hotel Lucky Hole - 3rd part of the suicide trilogySchauspielhaus Zürich, Switzerland
2013Dementia - 2nd part of the suicide trilogyProton Theatre, Budapest, Hungary
  • Critics’ Award - Baltic House Festival 2014. Saint Petersburg, Russia[61]
2012The Bat or my Little Cemetery - 1st part of the suicide trilogyTR Warszawa, Poland
  • Guarantees of Culture 2012 award in "theatre" category,[62] Telewizja Polska, Poland[62][63]
  • Grand Prix of the 53rd Kalisz Theatre Meetings for the actors[62] 2013. Kalisz, Poland[64]
  • Best performance - Międzynarodowy Festiwal Teatralny "Boska Komedia" (Divine Comedy Festival) 2013. Krakow, Poland[65][66]
2012DisgraceProton Theatre, Budapest, Hungary
  • Best direction: Kornél Mundruczó - 13th National Theatre Festival 2013. Pécs, Hungary[67]
2012Pleasant DaysTheater Oberhausen, Germany
2011Betrothal in St. Domingo or my Sweet HaitiStaatstheater Hannover, Germany
2011Time of the PossessedThalia Theatre Hamburg, Germany
2010Eszter Solymosi of TiszaeszlárStaatstheater Hannover, Germany
2010Hard to be a GodProton Theatre, Budapest, Hungary
2009Gospel of JudasThalia Theatre Hamburg, Germany
2007Frankenstein-projectBárka Theatre, Budapest, Hungary
  • Best Performance - 8th National Theatre Festival 2008. Pécs, Hungary[71]
  • Audience Award - 8th National Theatre Festival 2008. Pécs, Hungary[71]
  • Special Prize of BITEF - 44th BITEF Festival 2010. Belgrade, Serbia[72]
2006The IceKrétakör Company, Budapest, Hungary
  • Best young creator: Kornél Mundruczó - XIX. Międzynarodowy International Theatre Festival "Kontakt" 2009. Toruń, Poland[73]
  • Silver Laurel Wreath Award for Best Performance in the Mittel Europa category - MESS International Theatre Festival 2009. Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina[74]
  • The Special Jury Award for Best Ensemble - MESS International Theatre Festival 2009. Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina[74]
  • The Avaz Dragon Award - MESS International Theatre Festival 2009. Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina[74]
  • Texture Name Prize - Texture Film and Theatre Festival 2010. Perm, Russia[75][76][77]
2006CaligulaRadnóti Theatre, Budapest, Hungary
2005Zérus - the poems of Sinead MorrisseyTrafó House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest, Hungary
2004Nibelung-ResidencyKrétakör Company, Budapest, Hungary

Opera
YearTitleTheatreNotes
2016The Makropulos AffairVlaamse Opera, Antwerpen, Belgium
  • Nominee for best new production - International Opera Awards 2017[78]
2014Bluebeard's Castle / WinterreiseVlaamse 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.[79]

2009Bluebeard's CastleBudapest Spring Festival, Hungary
2003The Respectful ProstituteBudapest Autumn Festival, Hungary

Kamilló Lendvay's one-act opera, based on Jean-Paul Sartre's drama[80][81]

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