Gábor Herendi

02.12.1960, Budapest, Hungary

 

Director
Herendi is a Hungarian director and producer. He worked as co-director on two Hungarian series Szeret nem szeret (2002) and Tea (2002). In 1991, he founded the film production house Skyfilm and worked as a producer and director of numerous commercial films. His feature film debut Nekako američki (Valami Amerika, 2002) was shown in Tuškanac in 2006. He also made the comedy Magyar vándor (2004), the drama Lora (2007) and the sequel to his debut Nekako američki 2 (Valami Amerika 2, 2008).

Filmography


Films by this director

A Kind of America

(Valami Amerika, 2002)

Directed by: Gábor Herendi
PHOTOGRAPHY: Jordi Reixach
Synopsis:

Tamás, a director of commercials, is trying to make his first film based on a screenplay he wrote. Alex Brubeck is a film producer who likes Tamás’s screenplay and plans to meet with him. This is a great opportunity for Tamás who with his two brothers, a successful manager, Ákos, and a poet, András, does everything to persuade Brubeck to finance his film. Brubeck agrees to finance the film but he has one condition…

color, 115 min

Kind of America 2

(Valami Amerika 2, 2008.)

Directed by: Gábor Herendi
PHOTOGRAPHY: Balázs Márton
Synopsis:

The sequel to the film A Kind of America follows the three brothers from the first part after Tamás directed a movie. They receive a postcard from America and travel to New York to find an impostor Alex. He ran away with their sixty million and Akos’ girlfriend. In New York, they learn that Alex is being forced to direct a theatre play or the Hungarian mafia will kill him. The brothers get involved in the whole mess by buying the rights to the play before Alex does.

color, 110 min
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