Biography

Directed 1 actress to an Oscar nomination: Vanessa Kirby, who was nominated for Pieces of a Woman (2020).

The website Movie Insider credits him twice, once as Kornel Mundruczo and the second as Kornel Mumdruczo.

[on Pieces of a Woman (2020)] I wanted to talk about a taboo, which I think really exists. Women who lose their babies are so relegated to isolation. People (around them) just don't know how to deal with these losses and tragedies, both within society and family. That was the origin. Then, I also wanted to put the story in an environment that I know, and am close to. So I chose this family of Holocaust survivors. Our main character (Martha, played by Vanessa Kirby) is a third generation Holocaust survivor. So the question is how they deal with tragedies and what are the imprints that we give to our children. [2020]

[on White God (2014) and immigrant groups in Hungary] Of course we have a huge gypsy minority in Budapest and in Hungary. Also we have a huge Jewish community as well and the phobias absolutely exist more and more in Hungary, and of course, I'm half-Romanian. I always wanted to film myself as a minority, actually everywhere, because I think minorities mirror the way society works. So of course this movie's about minorities, with a huge social criticism. How is history repeating itself? This story is not so far from the second World War. We are in Europe and we are starting to build those kinds of laws and we have lots of fear of immigration. [2015]