György Fehér

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 19801982 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 Fassbinders The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant in 1998 and Edward Albees Whos 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