- Occupation
Producer, Director - Country
Hungary
Papp Gábor Zsigmond
The life of an agent
During the communist era hundreds of propaganda and instructional films, as well as short and full-length feature films were produced in Hungary. These films addressed a wide range of subjects and provided guidance as to the appropriate methods of protecting the socialist state to Hungarian policemen, border guards and counter-intelligence staff. Among others, their subjects include the expert illustration of a clandestine house-search, the operative shadowing of select target persons, the installation of tapping devices, and the organization of agents and denunciators. The film is divided into four sub-parts, 20 minutes each.
Mall People
A sociological study about a contemporary, life - isn`t it a litte bit strange?
The School of the Empire
The Chool of the German Empire was established in 1908 for the children of German, Austrian and Czech diplomats and traders working in Budapest. The co-educational school, with twelve grades, first operaterd in Kálmán Street and then in Damjanich Street. After World War I., following the collapse of the Monarchy, Hungarian children were also allowed to enrol.
Spy in a One Horse Town
Acting on assignments recieved from imperialist intelligence organs, the practical tasks of espionage are carried out by professional spies as well as agents recruited from among the citizens of other countries, who on becoming agents regularly betray their own homeland.What are agents recruited for? Is it possible to give up spying? We put these questions to Gábor Rimner, who was recruited by the CIA in 1973 to be spy.
East-West Passage
They wanted to go to a prosperous and free West Germany but they could not get passports, so they hoped that by travelling through Hungary, the least suppressed country of the Soviet Block, they could cross the Iron Curtain into Austria and then travel on into West Germany. For them the Hungary of twenty years ago was the new east-west passage.
During the communist era hundreds of propaganda and instructional films, as well as short and full-length feature films were produced in Hungary. These films addressed a wide range of subjects and provided guidance as to the appropriate methods of protecting the socialist state to Hungarian policemen, border guards and counter-intelligence staff. Among others, their subjects include the expert illustration of a clandestine house-search, the operative shadowing of select target persons, the installation of tapping devices, and the organization of agents and denunciators. The film is divided into four sub-parts, 20 minutes each.
Mall People
A sociological study about a contemporary, life - isn`t it a litte bit strange?
The School of the Empire
The Chool of the German Empire was established in 1908 for the children of German, Austrian and Czech diplomats and traders working in Budapest. The co-educational school, with twelve grades, first operaterd in Kálmán Street and then in Damjanich Street. After World War I., following the collapse of the Monarchy, Hungarian children were also allowed to enrol.
Spy in a One Horse Town
Acting on assignments recieved from imperialist intelligence organs, the practical tasks of espionage are carried out by professional spies as well as agents recruited from among the citizens of other countries, who on becoming agents regularly betray their own homeland.What are agents recruited for? Is it possible to give up spying? We put these questions to Gábor Rimner, who was recruited by the CIA in 1973 to be spy.
East-West Passage
They wanted to go to a prosperous and free West Germany but they could not get passports, so they hoped that by travelling through Hungary, the least suppressed country of the Soviet Block, they could cross the Iron Curtain into Austria and then travel on into West Germany. For them the Hungary of twenty years ago was the new east-west passage.
DATE OF BIRTH 21st December 1966EDUCATION 1993-1996 Hungarian Film Academy of Budapest Degree in directing short films, documentaries, videoclips 1986-1992 University of ELTE Budapest Degree in history and literature 1990-1991 Scholarship of the European Community to the University of Bologna, Faculty of Political Sciences
Tandori - 1996The Last Days of the College - 1996Budapest Retro - 1998The Novelist’s Heritage - 1999My Native Village: Budapest - 2002Budapest retro 2. – 2003The School of the Reich - 2003Ash Wednesday - 2004The Life of an Agent – 2005University in Escape – 2005My Brother’s Shoes - 2006 Balaton retro - 2007Spy in a One Horse Town - 2009Hungarian Retro - 2010My Soviet Pen-friend - 2011
Bologna Film
Lagymanyosi ut 21/a
H-1111 Budapest
Lagymanyosi ut 21/a
H-1111 Budapest