Emerging from Hungary's important “Sixties Generation” of filmmakers (he was a contemporary of István Szabó, Pál Gábor and Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács at the Academy of Theatre and Film Art and at the Béla Balázs Studio), János Rózsa has distinguished himself with a number of prize-winning feature films centering around one theme: youth. Rózsa has a special rapport with young people, and his films evoke their universe in unique ways, from the grotesque surrealism of his debut feature Grimaces (see June 21), and the lyrical past portrayed in Dreaming Youth, to the blunt realities of Sunday Daughters and Mascot.
