János Szász(I)
- Director
- Writer
- Actor
János Szász was born in Budapest. He studied drama and stage
direction at the Academy of Theater and Film Arts, and spent four
important years at the National Theater Budapest. For the stage, he
directed "Ghosts" by Henrik Ibsen, "The Deer King" by Carlo Gozzi and "A
Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams. He has also directed films and TV
Series. His long feature films are: Szédülés (1990), Woyzeck (1994) and The Witman Boys (1997). Szász
also directed a documentary for the Shoa Foundation and Steven Spielberg:
Eyes of the Holocaust (2000). The story of the children of the holocaust never was told
this way before.
