Attila Bertalan

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Attila Bertalan
Alma mater University of British Columbia
Occupation(s)film director, actor, screenwriter
Known for A Bullet in the Head

Attila Bertalan is a Canadian actor and filmmaker. [1] He is most noted for his 1990 film A Bullet in the Head , which was selected as Canada's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1991. [2]

Originally from British Columbia, [2] Bertalan was twice honoured by the Canadian Student Film Festival while he was a film student at the University of British Columbia, receiving an honourable mention in 1982 for The Glass Door [3] and winning Best Director and Best Fiction Film in 1984 for The Roomer. [4] Later based in Montreal, he acted in several films, including Bashar Shbib's Seductio , Clair Obscur and 15 Ugly Sisters , while making A Bullet in the Head. The film, a war allegory about an injured soldier's struggle to survive in unfamiliar territory, was spoken entirely in an invented language. [5]

In 1992, A Bullet in the Head was screened by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City as part of a Canadian film series that also included Léa Pool's The Savage Woman (La Demoiselle sauvage) and André Forcier's An Imaginary Tale (Une histoire inventée). [6]

Bertalan's second film, Between the Moon and Montevideo , was released in 2000. [7] A science fiction film set on a space station, the film starred Bertalan, Gerard Gagnon and Pascale Bussières. [8]

References

  1. ↑ "Clever film's story as universal as war". Edmonton Journal , February 28, 1991.
  2. 1 2 "Bullet in the Head chosen for Oscar consideration". The Globe and Mail , November 13, 1991.
  3. ↑ "Toronto student wins film award". The Globe and Mail , November 25, 1982.
  4. ↑ "O'Donoghue film wins $1,000 prize". The Globe and Mail , March 29, 1984.
  5. ↑ "Canadian films champion shoestring survival". Kingston Whig-Standard , July 9, 1992.
  6. ↑ "Canadian film gets a boost from MOMA". The Globe and Mail , February 10, 1992.
  7. ↑ "A good film, struggling to be born". The Globe and Mail , May 18, 2001.
  8. ↑ Glen Schaefer, "Wacky and witless with fine acting". The Province , June 1, 2001.
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