Overview
- His death was announced on Hungary’s MTI by filmmaker Bence Fliegauf on behalf of the family and was confirmed by the European Film Academy.
- The family requested privacy and asked that the press and public not seek statements during this period.
- Across nine features from 1977 to 2011, he helped define slow cinema with long takes and stark black-and-white imagery in works including Sátántangó, Werckmeister Harmonies, and The Turin Horse, which won a Berlin Jury Prize.
- He frequently collaborated with novelist László Krasznahorkai and editor–co-director Ágnes Hranitzky, and he was known for an outspoken political voice.
- After retiring from feature filmmaking, he founded the film.factory school in Sarajevo and later received the European Film Academy’s 2023 Honorary Award.