Fruzsina Skrabski

Fruzsina Annamária Skrabski (born 22 November 1975 in Budapest) is a Hungarian film director, producer, screenwriter, journalist, and university lecturer.

As a filmmaker, Skrabski specializes in the documentary genre. Her works explore Hungarian historical, political, and social themes. Her debut film was Crime without Punishment (Bűn és büntetlenség, 2010), co-directed by Tamás Novák, focusing on Béla Biszku. Another critically acclaimed documentary is Silenced Shame (Elhallgatott gyalázat, 2013), which addresses the wartime sexual violence inflicted by Soviet soldiers upon Hungarian women during World War II.

From May 2022 until her resignation, she served as an adviser to President Katalin Novák.

Early life and education Skrabski attended Nagy Sándor József Gimnázium. In 1996 she was admitted to the Budapest Media Institute of University of Szeged, where she obtained a degree in communication in 2000. Between 2003 and 2006 she participated in the Communication Program of the Doctoral School of Linguistics at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Pécs. In 2008 she also taught at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University, in the Department of Communication. Between 2011 and 2012 she was editor-director of the online magazine Becsengetünk és elfutunk at Heti Válasz. From 2012 to 2013 she served as director, presenter and producer of the monthly investigative documentary series of the same title at MTVA.

Family Skrabski is married and has one child. Her parents were the renowned physician and psychologist Mária Kopp and sociologist Árpád Skrabski. Silenced Shame (, 2013), screened nationwide and broadcast on Hungarian public television (Duna, M1) Victims 2006 (, 2021), documentary on the 2006 police violence against demonstrators in Budapest Inherited Shame (, 2022), sequel to Silenced Shame, focusing on the descendants of women raped by Soviet soldiers in 1945; the film explores how historical trauma is transmitted across generations

Book

András Csókay and Fruzina Skrabski, Párbeszéd a megpróbáltatásról – a létről és jelenlétről (2019)

Awards

Knight's Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit (2012) of the General Assembly of Budapest (2018)