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Imago

Director:
Marcell Jankovics
Country:
Hungary
year: 2015
Running Time:
5'
Technique:
Drawing on paper
Category:
Short film [up to 10 min]
Producer:
Bori Mezei-Edit Ko-Marta Karnyaczki
Distributor:
Bori Mezei-Edit Ko-Marta Karnyaczki
The program:

Synopsis

The great actor in his tiring room after frantic success.
He takes off his costume and masque.
He tries to find the way back to himself.
Do you have your own face?

Director's BIO

MARCELL JANKOVICS

He was born in Budapest in 1941. He began as inbetweener, soon was appointed to assistant animator, then to animator at Pannonia Film Studio. Film director from 1965. The first full-length animated film produced in Hungary – Johnny Corncob – is associated with his name. Between 1996-2007 he was the managing director of Pannoniafilm. Owner of the highest cultural prize in Hungary. He used to be the president of the National Cultural Fund of Hungary.

Main films:
Gustavus (series, with József Nepp, Attila Dargay and others) –1964-68,1976-78
Legend of New Year’s Eve – 1965
Tendencies – 1967
Dreams on Wings – 1968
S.O.S. – 1970
The Line is Engaged – 1971
Water of Life – 1971
Johnny Corncob (feature) – 1973
Sisyphus – 1974
Dirt – 1974
Fight – 1977
Hungarian Folk Tales (series) – from 1977
Son of the White Mare (feature) – 1981
Tangram (series) – 1986
Legends from the Hungarian History (series) – 1986-88
Bible-Creation – 1989
The Shaman in Eurasia – 1989
Prometheus – 1992
Christmas Carol – 1995
Song of the Miraculous Hind (feature) – 2001
The Tragedy of Man (feature) - 2011 (started in 1989)
Imago – 2015

Contacts

clarus-tax@t-online.hu