Zoltan Szalkai

Zoltan Szalkai

Zoltán Szalkai, a Hungarian film director, was born in 1961. He studied agriculture and geology before turning to a career in directing documentary films.

One of the best known of these is "Walk on Gulagland", made on location in Siberia. The film is centred on the many encounters he had when walking across Siberia, meeting prisoners from the forced labour camps and discussing their experiences with them. His approach is interesting in that he grew up himself in Hungary and was taught the communist version of history.

Szalkai has also worked in Vietnam and Alaska, always tracing stories of hardship and forced labour camps.

External links

* [http://www.hunfilm.com/en/med_projects.html Biography of Zoltán Szalkai from Media Works, Digital Film Academy]
* [http://www.gulag.hu/szalkai.htm Walk on Gulagland Kolyma] - Description of the documentary from Istvan Toth's pages
* [http://www.dersu.hu Zoltan Szalkai homepage]

ee also

*Gulag
*Kolyma


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать реферат

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Wiseman, Alaska — Infobox Settlement official name = Wiseman, Alaska settlement type = CDP nickname = motto = image caption = The log built post office at Wiseman, seen here in 1995, has been sinking into the ground for the past century, and is now a couple feet… …   Wikipedia

  • Kolyma — This is an article about the region commonly known as Kolyma. For river it is named after, see Kolyma River The Kolyma (pronounced koh lee MAH) region ( ru. Колыма) is located in the far north eastern area of Russia in what is commonly known as… …   Wikipedia

  • János Rózsás — (b. Budapest, 6 August 1926) a writer, dubbed the Hungarian Solzhenitsyn . He was held captive in the Soviet Union between 1944 and 1953, and during these years he became friends with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the famous Noble prize winner Soviet… …   Wikipedia

  • Gulag — For other uses, see Gulag (disambiguation). The integrated map of the Gulag camps, which existed from 1923 to 1961, based on data from the Human Rights Society «Memorial» …   Wikipedia

  • Newborn (band) — Newborn Origin Budapest, Hungary Genres Hardcore punk, metal Years active 1998–2002 Labels Erdkampf Records (Austria) CrimethInc …   Wikipedia

  • Tischtennis-Europameisterschaft 1958 — Die 1. Tischtennis Europameisterschaft fand vom 2. bis 19. März 1958 in Budapest statt. Erstmals gelang es der DDR, mit einer eigenen Mannschaft aufzutreten. Am erfolgreichsten war Ungarn, das den Teamwettbewerb der Herren, die Einzeldisziplinen… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”