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Judit Elek
Elek at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2023
Born (1937-11-10) 10 November 1937 (age 86)
Budapest, Hungary
Occupation(s)Film director
Screenwriter
Years active1962–present

Judit Elek (born 10 November 1937) is a Hungarian film director and screenwriter.[1] She directed 16 films between 1962 and 2006. Her film Mária-nap was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.[2]

Biography

As a child, she survived the Second World War first in a sheltered house on Pozsonyi Street, Budapest, and then in the ghetto (November 1944 - January 1945).[3] From 1956 to 1961, Elek studied at the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest, in the class of film director Félix Máriássy. Her classmates included Pál Gábor, Imre Gyöngyössy, Zoltán Huszárik, Ferenc Kardos, Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács, János Rózsa, Éva Singer and István Szabó.[4]

During this time she was a founding member of the Balázs Béla Studio, a workshop for experimental film. In 1968, Elek made her first feature film, Sziget a szárazföldön (The Lady from Constantinople). From the 1980s onwards, she made historical films such as The Trial of Martinovics and the Hungarian Jacobins (1980). In the 1990s, she shot films with a Jewish theme like Tutajosok (Memories of a River, 1990) and To speak the Unspeakable: The Message of Elie Wiesel (1996).

Elek was married to the Hungarian film director Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács (1936-2014). The cinematographer and producer Eli Laszlo Berger Eli Berger (László Berger, born in Budapest, 1970) is their son, known for the films A hét nyolcadik napja (The Eighth Day of the Week, 2006, directed by Judit Elek), Bankster (2016) and Dreams Are an Excuse (2023).[5]

Filmography

Elek wrote many screenplays and directed many films, mostly in Hungarian, including:[1][6][7]

Awards

Publications

Her publications include:[9]

Controversy

For the purposes of the film Tutajosok (1990) 14 sheep were spread with a flammable substance, and then, at the order of Judit Elek, were burned alive.[8] 69 scientists from the Jagiellonian University demanded that the authorities forbid Judit Elek entry to Poland. Scientists wrote among others: "No director knowing her own worth would debase herself for using so primitive and cruel methods".[1][citation needed]

References

  1. ^ a b c Judit Elek at IMDb
  2. ^ "Un Certain Regard Opening film MARIA NAP Directed by : Judit ELEK Country : HUNGARY". festival-cannes.com. Archived from the original on 8 March 2022. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
  3. ^ "Egy társadalom sokféleképpen tud ölni ? ELEK JUDIT". kultura.hu (in Hungarian). Petőfi Cultural Agency Nonprofit Zrt. Budapest. 16 March 2011. Retrieved 23 April 2023. Interview in Hungarian with Elek about the film Visszatérés – Retrace.
  4. ^ "A Balázs Béla Stúdió". filmkultura.hu (in Hungarian). Magyar Menzeti Filmarchivum (Hungarian National Film Archive). Retrieved 23 April 2023.
  5. ^ Eli Laszlo Berger Eli Berger at IMDb
  6. ^ "Elek Judit". filmunio.hu (in Hungarian). Színház- és Filmművészeti Egyetem. Archived from the original on 29 January 2010. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
  7. ^ "IFFR 2024 24 Jan – 4 Feb. Focus: Judit Elek. Programme IFFR 2023". iffr.com. International Film Festival Rotterdam. Retrieved 23 April 2023. The film durations in the Wikipedia article are those of the film versions at the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2023.
  8. ^ a b Holden, Stephen (20 March 1992). "Tutajosok: Review/Film; To Be a Jew In 1880s Hungary". NY Times.com. Archived from the original on 8 February 2013. Retrieved 29 April 2010.
  9. ^ ""Elek, Judit"". worldcat.org. OCLC WorldCat. 2023. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
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