World Cinema
Semmelweis / Semmelweis
Screening Schedule
Screening 1
- 14th December
- 3.15 pm
- new 3
Screening 2
- 15th December
- 3.15 pm
- ajantha
Screening 3
- 18th December
- 12.15 pm
- audi 6
Lajos Koltai
Director's bio
Lajos Koltai
Lajos Koltai is an Oscar-nominated cinematographer and director. He was born on April 2, 1946 in Budapest. In 1964-65, he spent a year at Hungarian Television as an assistant cameraman and then as a cameraman. In 1965, he became a student of György Illés at the Cinematography course of the Academy of Drama and Film Arts Budapest. In 1970, he graduated with the film Agitators. From 1970, he worked at MAFILM; he initially made documentaries, then he was his teacher's cameraman in three feature films. He worked in both documentary and aestheticist films. Between 1982 and 1986, he was a Head of Department at the University of Theatre and Film Arts Budapest on the Cameraman training course. Between 2010 and 2018, he was an Associate Professor at the Department of Moving Image Culture at Eszterházy Károly Catholic University in Eger, Hungary. Currently, he is the head of the MA in Film Directing at the University of Theatre and Film Arts Budapest. klaudia.androsovits@nfi.hu; darok.krisztina@nfi.hu marta.benyei@nfi.hu; kati.vajda@nfi.hu papp.csaba@nfi.hu Among other prestigious awards and prizes, Koltai was nominated for an Oscar for his work as a Cinematographer for Malena (2000), and he won a European Film Award for Sunshine (1999). He was also the Cinematographer of Oscar-nominated films Colonel Redl (1985) and Hanussen (1988), and the Oscar-winning masterpiece Mephisto (1981).
Synopsis
Set in 19th century Vienna, Ignac Semmelweis, a short-tempered but passionate doctor, delivers babies and carries out autopsies on a daily basis while looking for the cause of puerperal fever, the mysterious epidemic that decimates patients in the hospital.
Details of Cast
MIKLÓS H. VECSEI Ignác Semmelweis KATICA NAGY Emma Hoffman LÁSZLÓ GÁLFFI Johann Klein TAMÁS KOVÁCS Ferdinand Kollár FERENC LENGYEL Karl Baumgartner NELLI SZŰCS Mrs. Baumgartner FERENC ELEK Jakob Kolletschka TIMEA VARGA Nurse Helga LAJOS KOVÁCS Franz Meyer BLANKA MÉSZÁROS Júlia Mandel LILLA KIZLINGER Szabina Hoffmann ATTILA CSAPÓ Lajos Markusovszky LAJOS KOVÁCS Franz Meyer ANNA GYÖRGYI Gertrúd
Details of Crew
DoP: András Nagy H.S.C., Edited by Zoltán Kovács H.S.E., Sound by Rudolf Várhegyi, Music by Attila Pacsay
Producer Details
Tamás Lajos / Szupermodern Filmstúdió & Joe Vida
Writer Details
Balázs Maruszki
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