Bence Gyöngyössy
Bence Gyöngyössy (born 1963) is a Hungarian film director, producer, and cinematographer who works across documentary and feature film. The son of the late Hungarian director and poet Imre Gyöngyössy, he moved to Munich at seventeen and graduated as a director from the Munich Film and Television School after studying communications and drama at Ludwig Maximilian University. His feature Romani Kris — Cigánytörvény (Gypsy Lore, 1997) re-imagines Shakespeare's King Lear in a Hungarian Roma community: a Romany patriarch banishes his youngest daughter and then sets out across the country in search of her. A trinational Hungarian-German-Bulgarian co-production released in three languages, it became one of the best-known Hungarian films of its decade and confirmed his standing as a Balázs Béla-prize winner. He continues to work internationally in documentary and fiction.