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Árpád Sopsits

Died
March 6, 2025
Age
72 years

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Árpád Sopsits, 72, Hungarian film director (Strangled).

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Árpád Sopsits (2 May 1952 – 6 March 2025) was a Hungarian theatre and film director and screenwriter. In 1994 he won the Béla Balázs Award.

Life and career

Sopsits started his studies at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Debrecen, Cours of Folk Culture and Library. Between 1975 and 1979 he studied directing at the Academy of Drama and Film in Buadapest the class of Károly Makk. From 1974 he worked at the Institute of Philosophy at Semmelweis University, and later as a scriptwriter for Mafilm. In 1994 he was awarded the Béla Balázs Prize.

He worked at the Budapesti Kamaraszínház (2001–2004, 2008, 2011), the Gyulai Várszínház (2002, 2010), the Új Színház (2003), the Szabadkai Népszínház (2005), the National Theatre (2006, 2009), the Merlin Theatre (2011), the Vígszínház (2012) and at the Szekszárdi Német Színház (2013).

Sopsits died on 6 March 2025, at the age of 72.

Theatrical works

A number of performances are registered in the Színházi Adattár; as author: 5, as actor: 2, as director: 19; as set designer: 9; as costume designer: 2.

Author

  • Sopsits: Dosztojevszkij: Bűn és bűnhődés a rácsok mögött (2001)
  • Gogol-Sopsits: Egy őrült naplója (2003)
  • Brestyánszki-Sopsits: Álomlakó (2005)
  • Sopsits: Fekete angyal (2008)
  • Gyulay-Sopsits: Psyché (2010)
  • Sopsits: Die Verwandlung (2013)

Actor

  • Brestyánszki-Sopsits: Álomlakó....Aranyarc
  • Barfuss: Szüleink szexuális neurózisai, avagy Dora élettörténete....Dora apja

Director, designer

Designer means: scenographer (s) or/and costume designer (cd)

  • Sposits: Dosztojevszkij: Bűn és bűnhődés a rácsok mögött (2001) (cd)
  • William Shakespeare: Falstaff (IV. Henrik) (2002)
  • Ghelderode: Kószál a nagy kaszás (2002)
  • Gogol-Sopsits: Egy őrült naplója (2003) (s, cd)
  • Shepard: Hazug képzelet (2003)
  • Büchner: A létező (2004)
  • Büchner: Woyzeck (2004)
  • Brestyánszki-Sopsits: Álomlakó (2005) (s)
  • Szophoklész: Oidipusz király (2006)
  • Szophoklész: Oidipusz Kolónoszban (2006)
  • Sopsits: Fekete angyal (2008) (s, cd)
  • Williams: Orpheusz alászáll (2009)
  • Gyulay-Sopsits: Psyché (2010) (s)
  • Barfuss: Szüleink szexuális neurózisai, avagy Dora élettörténete (2011) (s)
  • Marber: Közelebb! (Closer) (2011) (s)
  • Oksanen: Tisztogatás (2011)
  • Esterházy Péter: Csokonai Lili – Tizenhét hattyúk (2012)
  • Kafka: Die Verwandlung (2013) (s)

Filmography

  • Szabadjegy a bombatölcsérbe (1978)
  • Niagara Nagykávéház (1980)
  • Céllövölde (1990)
  • Video Blues (1992)
  • Félelem és reszketés (1994)
  • Rítus (1995)
  • Derengő (1996)
  • Légyfogó (1998)
  • A negatív ember (1998)
  • Abandoned (Torzók) (2001)
  • Tálentum (2001)
  • Harasztÿ István (2003)
  • Ritmusok (2004)
  • Forgás (2005)
  • Kocsmakoncert (2006)
  • A hetedik kör (2008)
  • Strangled (A martfűi rém) (2016)

Awards

Showing all 17 wins and 3 nominations

Annonay International Festival of films

Bergamo Film Meeting

Annonay International Festival of First films

Castellinaria International Festival of Young Cinema

Chicago International Film Festival

Hungarian Film Critics Awards

Hungarian Film Week

Locarno International Film Festival

Montréal World Film Festival

Parma International Music Film Festival, IT

Prix Europa

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