Szabolcs Hajdu

26.01.1972, Debrecen, Hungary

 

Director
Hajdu is a Hungarian actor, director and screenwriter. He started his film career as an actor in the 1990s and then began directing in the last years of the 20th century. After two short films, Necropolis (1997) and Kicsimarapagoda (1998), he directed his first feature film Sticky Matters (Macerás ügyek, 2001), which won the award for Best Editor, Best debut at the Hungarian Film Week as well as the Hungarian critics’ award. Afterwards he made the drama Tamara (1994) and White Palms (Fehér tenyér, 2006), the short film Hétköznapi enciklopédia (2006) and the TV comedy Off Hollywood (2007). He is currently working on the film Bibliotheque Pascal.

Filmography


Films by this director

White Palms

(Fehér tenyér, 2006)

Directed by: Szabolcs Hajdu
PHOTOGRAPHY: András Nagy
Synopsis:

The film was shot in a documentary style with actors who are professional gymnasts and it is, in fact, an autobiographical story about the director and his older brother Zoltán Miklós Hajdu, a professional gymnast and coach. Both of them were gymnasts from an early age, and this film shows the “life behind the scenes” of professional gymnasts.

color, 97 min
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