Zsolt Pozsgai

Zsolt Pozsgai (born 20 September 1960 in Pécs) is a Hungarian freelance writer, playwright, stage and film director, and film producer (Horatio Film).

Career

Born in Pécs, in South Hungary, in 1960, Pozsgai become a writer in his early teenage years, and at the age of 14 he was already directing an independent amateur theatre company in Pécs, where he completed his secondary education. as author: 112, as a director: 53, as a dramaturge: 13, as a translator: 5, as actor: 2 and as a lyricist: 1.

Pozsgai has been the general director of Horatio Film Ltd., Budapest

Start of career Pozsgai organized and directed an amateur theatre in Pécs from his childhood until 1982, when he, as a dramaturge and assistant of arts, became employed by the National Theatre of Pécs. He explored many jobs between the day of his graduation from high school in 1979 and his employment in the artistic sector of theatres. He frequently published his creations, primarily poems. These years were the period of his conscious preparation for his career as a writer. After the chief director quit, Pozsgai also left the theatre and was appointed the editor of the press of literary artworks in Pécs in cooperation with Tibor Tüskés, an excellent historian of literature. In those days, he also attended the University of Sciences in Pécs and performed his mandatory military service.

Pozsgai compiled his first featured theatrical play, titled Horatio, during the years of his military service. Horatio was directed by Péter Tömöry and was performed at the Hevesi Sándor Theatre in Zalaegerszeg, Hungary in 1988 with great success.

Career at the theatre In that period, Pozsgai lived in Budapest; he was the dramaturge and director of the Kolibri Theatre there in addition to his job at the metropolitan press. This theatre featured his first play directed for children in 1995. After that, the Madách Theatre of Budapest premiered his drama titled Viaszmadár (Vaxbird),

Pozsgai was invited to join the Hungarian Writers' Union.

In 1992, he was appointed the chief artistic director of the Arizona Theatre where his musical titled "Kölyök" (The Kid), which he compiled in cooperation with conductor Tibor Nagy, debuted with great success. ), he was appointed the chief director and artistic director of the Új Theatre in Budapest.

Theatre director Pozsgai has been a director employed frequently by Hungarian and foreign theaters since 1992. His repertoire includes his own works as well as Hungarian and universal classic pieces and those written by modern authors. He is delighted to direct Ibsen's dramas. He directed the theatrical version of Hungarian writer Sándor Márai's novel acclaimed worldwide in the French language in Geneva, Switzerland and Avignon, France. His oeuvre as a writer and director amalgamates in his adaptations of classical novels on stage, such as Stendhal's The Red and the Black, Victor Hugo's The Man Who Laughs, Dickens' David Copperfield, and others.

Screenplay writer and film director

Pozsgai started his career as a screenplay writer in the film industry, including the scripts of television series and fiction films. In 2006, he was invited to shoot his very first film titled Csendkút (The Well of Silence). Subsequently, he directed either a new television film, or television play, or feature film each year until 2015. His film titled A föld szeretője (The Lover of the Soil), which was nominated to the "A" category at the International Film Festival of India, was premiered in 2010. After that year it was shown at many festivals around the world.

Last film: THE DEVOTED /about Kalvin/ 2018, director-producer. Awards in 2018: best feature - Jesus Fest International Film Festival, Argentina / best feature Kolkata International Film Festival, India / Angel Peace Award, Monaco International Film Festival

From 2011 onward, Pozsgai wrote and directed many television films.

Book publisher In 1988, Pozsgai founded Pátria Book Publishing at the Pátria Press by the support of the latter; the objective of Pátria Book Publishing is to publish the creations of contemporary Hungarian writers. In the course of its operation, this book publishing business published nearly one hundred books whose writers were nearly all considered contemporary in that period. and Tehran.

Pozsgai is the chairman of the drama division of the Association of Hungarian Writers. He was employed as a tutor at the Hungarian University of Theatre and Film Arts and at other private schools of arts. He is the editor of a book series titled "Nemzeti Könyvtár" (National Library) that presents the values of Hungarian literature.

Between 1987 and 2018, Pozsgai published eight books of drama in the Hungarian language. He frequently publishes articles and reports in Hungarian periodicals.

Selected plays Horatio Pozsgai wrote his first play during the years of his mandatory military service, which was premiered 1988 in the Hevesi Sándor Theatre in Zalaegerszeg.

GINA AND FIDEL about meeting between Gina Lollobrigida and Fidel Castro in 1974. First premiere in Graz, 2017. Satirata Theatre, Bulgary 2017. Budapest 2018. In german, english, spanish translation also,

Dramas abroad In 2000, the very first non-Hungarian premier took place in Graz, Austria in the German language: it was titled the Prófétakeringő (Prophetenwalzer / The Prophet's Waltz). After that many of his dramas were played in Graz, Austria. This is the city where his creation titled Liselotte és a május (Liselotte und der Mai / Liselotte in May) and Boldog bolondok (Mozart und Konstanze oder Die liebenden Verrückten / Merry madmen) started its series of sensation abroad.

Liselotte in May is the author's most performed play abroad; it has been translated into the English, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Romanian, French, Norwegian, Serbian, Croatian, and Hindi languages. Between 1999 and 2015, it was premiered twenty-two times all over the world from Sofia, Bulgaria to New York City, and from Geneva, Switzerland to Vancouver, Canada. Translated into several languages, his drama Boldog bolondok earned similar acclamation. Translated into the Hindi and Bengali languages, his drama titled A szűz és a szörny (The Virgin and the Beast) was featured in India. In 2014, he wrote Gina és Fidel (Gina and Fidel) which was first premiered in the German language.

The play Red Faust was staged in English at the Bates Theater, Boston, USA. Golden Lion Prize, best dramatist – Grand Prize of the Persian Academy, 2006 Creative recognition – EMI Music Publishing's 2012 ("A kölyök" / "The kid" musical – with Tibor Nagy and Iván Bradányi) Best play – Móricz Zsigmond Theatre in Nyíregyháza, "Fast Playwright" Competition 2015 ("Riport a pesti gyerekekről, 1908" / Reportage about children from Pest, 1908)