György Fehér

Born 1939-02-12 · Budapest

Died 2002-07-15

György Fehér (12 February 1939 – 15 July 2002) was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. In 1972, he graduated from the Academy of Theatre and Film Arts, majoring in directing and cinematography. Between 1980 and 1982, he was artistic director of the Móricz Zsigmond Theatre in Nyíregyháza. He graduated from the Academy of Theatre and Film Arts in 1972, majoring in directing and opera. Between 1980-1982 he was artistic director of the Móricz Zsigmond Theatre in Nyíregyháza. His first feature film, Szürkület (Twilight) (1990), won a special prize at the XXII Hungarian Film Festival and various awards at international festivals such as Locarno and Strasbourg. His film Passion (1998) won the Grand Jury Prize for Feature, Experimental and Short Films, the Best Director Award, the Best Actor and Actress Award, the Cinematography Award and the Gene Moskowitz Award from foreign critics at the XXIX Hungarian Film Festival. in 1996 he published Cyclopedia Anatomicae, an artistic reference book for human and animal anatomy with 1500 illustrations. He later published two more books on human and horse anatomy. At the National Theatre in Miskolc, Fehér helmed two plays starring Ági Olasz: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant in 1998 and Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 2000. In 1999, he directed the opera Leonce and Lena by János Vajda and George Büchner at the Hungarian State Opera House.