
Directing
György Kovásznai
Born — Died
1934-05-15 — 1983-06-28
Place of birth
Budapest, Hungary
Known for
Directing
Credits
26 titles
György Kovásznai was a Hungarian painter, animation director, and writer. A unique feature of his animated films is the frame-by-frame painting and drawing under the camera, which gives the paintings a moving, constantly changing, bravura quality.
Known for
5.0Shakespeare's Hamlet is rendered in exquisitely expressive pen drawings.
Hamlet
1967
6.9Zsolt Mohai, an eccentric shop window decorator in his 40s, drops by Anna Parádi on his wedding day, asking her to phone his bride Klára Horváth and call off the event. Drama, discussions and musical numbers ensue over topics like romance, loyalty, ambition, and settling for a family life in a modern day city.
Bubble Bath
1980
7.0A surrealistic cutout animated short.
Monologue
1963
6.2A passionate poet feels abandoned at the places of amusement in the Boulevard.
Nights in the Boulevard
1972
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Várakozni jó
1969
9.0György Kovásznai co-directs his last film “Reportrait” with Elek Lisziák, a series of interviews about various sociological subjects based on the concept of “Anima Veritae”.
Riportré
1982
Behind the camera
5.0Shakespeare's Hamlet is rendered in exquisitely expressive pen drawings.
Hamlet
1967
5.0Shakespeare's Hamlet is rendered in exquisitely expressive pen drawings.
Hamlet
1967
6.9Zsolt Mohai, an eccentric shop window decorator in his 40s, drops by Anna Parádi on his wedding day, asking her to phone his bride Klára Horváth and call off the event. Drama, discussions and musical numbers ensue over topics like romance, loyalty, ambition, and settling for a family life in a modern day city.
Bubble Bath
1980
6.9Zsolt Mohai, an eccentric shop window decorator in his 40s, drops by Anna Parádi on his wedding day, asking her to phone his bride Klára Horváth and call off the event. Drama, discussions and musical numbers ensue over topics like romance, loyalty, ambition, and settling for a family life in a modern day city.
Bubble Bath
1980
7.0A surrealistic cutout animated short.
Monologue
1963
7.0A surrealistic cutout animated short.
Monologue
1963
6.2A passionate poet feels abandoned at the places of amusement in the Boulevard.
Nights in the Boulevard
1972
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Várakozni jó
1969
9.0György Kovásznai co-directs his last film “Reportrait” with Elek Lisziák, a series of interviews about various sociological subjects based on the concept of “Anima Veritae”.
Riportré
1982
5.5Animated look at an ever-changing portrait of a man and a woman
Metamorphoses
1965
5.5Animated look at an ever-changing portrait of a man and a woman
Metamorphoses
1965
7.0Painted and drawn figures and shapes move to a soundtrack of rapidly changing radio broadcasts.
Wavelengths
1971
NRAn experimental short film documenting the life of Hungarian citizens through city footage and animation.
The City Through My Eyes
1971
NRAn experimental short film documenting the life of Hungarian citizens through city footage and animation.
The City Through My Eyes
1971
NRA gondolat, 1966 (50”)
A gondolat
1966
6.3A series of vignettes depicting musicians, painters, and other artists in an amusing manner.
Tales from the World of Art
1965
NRThis etude made up of captured snaps having a sociographic impact and expressive photo-collages by Dezső Korniss is the satirical apotheosis of the single, working urban woman from the second half of the 1960s.
From Dawn to Dusk
1967
NRKovásznai György’s fourth short animation follows a cat and dog who walk to a museum to look at paintings, about cats and dogs
Mirror Images
1964
7.0In the style of a diary, the film uses black and white photo retouching to show two good friends from Pest falling in love with a girl and finding themselves in a strange love triangle.
Diary
1966
7.0In the style of a diary, the film uses black and white photo retouching to show two good friends from Pest falling in love with a girl and finding themselves in a strange love triangle.
Diary
1966
9.0Short animated by György Kovásznai and musicalized by the popular song "Ça ira" that illustrates through paintings, the events that made up the french revolution and its multiple founders.
Ça ira - The song of the french revolution
1973
How a man feels when he sees a beautiful nude...
Young Man Playing The Guitar At The Old Masters’ Gallery
1964
7.0Screenplay Written by, Painted and Directed by György Kovásznai Music Compilation and Sound Editor: Péter Bársony Music Performed by Gábor Presser, Levente Szörényi, Zsuzsa Koncz, Kati Kovács, Máté Viktor, the LGT and the Hungária Bands Collaborators: János Czipauer, András Osvát, Miklós Papp, Béla Zsebényi, Katalin Kaim, Klára Kassai, and Frigyes Janotyik A subjective interpretation of the everyday life of the 1970s’ Budapest . It is an intriguing mixture of popular culture (music) and high art (composition of images). Kovásznai is not interested in telling a story; there is no linear narrative, the structure of the film is defined by the movements and transformations of the paintings to the rhythm of the music, generating a fundamentally audiovisual sensory experience.
Memory of the Summer of ’74
1974
A film based on his new film concept called anima veritae, and it was the first among his other tentative films.
Blossoming No. 3369
1971
NRSome fascinating paintings, photoes and animated pictures tell about the pleasure which a miner may feel when coming up to the light after the dangers in a mine.
The Joy of Light
1965
NRSome fascinating paintings, photoes and animated pictures tell about the pleasure which a miner may feel when coming up to the light after the dangers in a mine.
The Joy of Light
1965
