Directing
Balázs Simonyi
Born
1980-08-19 (46)
Place of birth
Budapest
Known for
Directing
Credits
35 titles
He studied film theory, film history, Hungarian language, and literature at ELTE BTK from 1998 to 2006. Pursued a PhD in philosophy, completing it in 2013. Throughout his career, he have worked as a dubbing artist, lending his voice to numerous TV and radio commercials, as well as foreign films. From 1986 to 2007, he was a member of Margit Földessy's drama studio, and in 2000, he founded the Kex and Tea literary reading night series. In 2003, he joined the first improvisational theatre company in Hungary, Momentán Társulat, where he served as the lead actor until leaving in 2012. Since 2002, he have worked as a creative freelancer, making films, long-form photo series, commercials, and telev…
Known for
NRAn unusual portrait of writer Péter Nádas. His monologue is accompanied by the associative images of the landscape of his hometown, Gombosszeg.
Own Forest
2023
5.1In an effort to end family feuding, a young gypsy travels back in time to kill mammoths to ensure Hungary becomes rich by killing mammoths in order to create a massive oil reservoir. Things don't go entirely according to plan...
The District
2004
6.3After his owners abandon him in the woods, a puppy befriends a family of rabbits.
The Seventh Brother
1995
7.0A unique drama about everyday athletes who join an extreme running race. Their dream and burden is to test their personal limits, heal their souls and release their demons.
Ultra
2017
Two suspiciously well-dressed men have a few drinks in a bar and then ominously head off into the night to finish a mysterious job.
Finale
2011
A journalist arrives in a Turkish town to make an article about the local community. He is investigating things, whilst he is also noticed by a secret agent. Who is following who?
Mandarin
2008
Film credits
2020s · 2 titles
NRAn unusual portrait of writer Péter Nádas. His monologue is accompanied by the associative images of the landscape of his hometown, Gombosszeg.
Own Forest
2023
NRA filmmaker intoxicated by his own visions and his humble cinematographer have been searching for locations and motifs for their never-made film for 22 years now.
Location Hunting 3.
2025
2010s · 3 titles
7.0A unique drama about everyday athletes who join an extreme running race. Their dream and burden is to test their personal limits, heal their souls and release their demons.
Ultra
2017
NRDreaming about the Wild West in the 1970s in Eastern Europe is not enough...
Indian
2016
NRSeven years have passed since we left our Director disappear in the purple fog somewhere on the Hungarian Puszta along with his faithful fellow, the D.O.P. This year a hard disk has been found, proving that their appetite for creation did not fade. Or did it?
Location Hunting 2.
2011
2000s · 3 titles
5.1In an effort to end family feuding, a young gypsy travels back in time to kill mammoths to ensure Hungary becomes rich by killing mammoths in order to create a massive oil reservoir. Things don't go entirely according to plan...
The District
2004
1.7The film is about Little Vuk, the son of the legendary fox who proves its excellent mind and courage.
A Fox's Tale
2008
7.0A zonked-out student director and his responsive D.O.P. friend are hunting for location to their new black and white movie in the great Hungarian desert. Strictly fiction?
Location Hunting
2003
1990s · 2 titles
6.3After his owners abandon him in the woods, a puppy befriends a family of rabbits.
The Seventh Brother
1995
6.0This is a story of a man who wants to grasp and hold his beloved one by him and a woman who insists on that her love can't be grasped; 'she' only can deliver hers. It has written Comedy, Romance etc... but, this movie doesn't include anything funny, I believe. After I see the movie, I thought that love springs through a one's heart and it has its own spirit. It doesn't have to have any company. The matter is if it coincides its mate; that's it.
Scorpio Eats Gemini for Breakfast
1992
Behind the camera
NRAn unusual portrait of writer Péter Nádas. His monologue is accompanied by the associative images of the landscape of his hometown, Gombosszeg.
Own Forest
2023
7.0A unique drama about everyday athletes who join an extreme running race. Their dream and burden is to test their personal limits, heal their souls and release their demons.
Ultra
2017
7.0A unique drama about everyday athletes who join an extreme running race. Their dream and burden is to test their personal limits, heal their souls and release their demons.
Ultra
2017
Two suspiciously well-dressed men have a few drinks in a bar and then ominously head off into the night to finish a mysterious job.
Finale
2011
Two suspiciously well-dressed men have a few drinks in a bar and then ominously head off into the night to finish a mysterious job.
Finale
2011
A journalist arrives in a Turkish town to make an article about the local community. He is investigating things, whilst he is also noticed by a secret agent. Who is following who?
Mandarin
2008
NRThe anatomy of a terror attack – and its turning to an everyday banality.
Banality
2019
NRThe anatomy of a terror attack – and its turning to an everyday banality.
Banality
2019
NRKövér Lajos (Fatty Louis) tries to lose weight and find a new friend.
Lajos & Laci
2018
NRKövér Lajos (Fatty Louis) tries to lose weight and find a new friend.
Lajos & Laci
2018
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Egy szavazat
2006
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Egy szavazat
2006
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Egy szavazat
2006
NRA filmmaker intoxicated by his own visions and his humble cinematographer have been searching for locations and motifs for their never-made film for 22 years now.
Location Hunting 3.
2025
NRA filmmaker intoxicated by his own visions and his humble cinematographer have been searching for locations and motifs for their never-made film for 22 years now.
Location Hunting 3.
2025
NRA filmmaker intoxicated by his own visions and his humble cinematographer have been searching for locations and motifs for their never-made film for 22 years now.
Location Hunting 3.
2025
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Halálvölgy - Portréfilm Lubics Szilviáról
2018
NRDreaming about the Wild West in the 1970s in Eastern Europe is not enough...
Indian
2016
NRDreaming about the Wild West in the 1970s in Eastern Europe is not enough...
Indian
2016
NRSeven years have passed since we left our Director disappear in the purple fog somewhere on the Hungarian Puszta along with his faithful fellow, the D.O.P. This year a hard disk has been found, proving that their appetite for creation did not fade. Or did it?
Location Hunting 2.
2011
NRSeven years have passed since we left our Director disappear in the purple fog somewhere on the Hungarian Puszta along with his faithful fellow, the D.O.P. This year a hard disk has been found, proving that their appetite for creation did not fade. Or did it?
Location Hunting 2.
2011
NRSeven years have passed since we left our Director disappear in the purple fog somewhere on the Hungarian Puszta along with his faithful fellow, the D.O.P. This year a hard disk has been found, proving that their appetite for creation did not fade. Or did it?
Location Hunting 2.
2011
7.0A zonked-out student director and his responsive D.O.P. friend are hunting for location to their new black and white movie in the great Hungarian desert. Strictly fiction?
Location Hunting
2003
7.0A zonked-out student director and his responsive D.O.P. friend are hunting for location to their new black and white movie in the great Hungarian desert. Strictly fiction?
Location Hunting
2003
7.0A zonked-out student director and his responsive D.O.P. friend are hunting for location to their new black and white movie in the great Hungarian desert. Strictly fiction?
Location Hunting
2003