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= Tamás Tóth (film director) = Tamás Tóth, born 15 September 1966 in Budapest and in order to distinguish between him and his numerous namesakes – amongst others the Hungarian actor Tamás Tóth, born in 1958, and the Hungarian triathlete Tamás Tóth, born in 1989 – sometimes also referred to as Tamás T. Tóth, is a Hungarian film director, screenwriter, cameraman, set designer, painter and graphic artist.

Biography
Born in Budapest, Tamás Tóth yet spent his very first years in a tiny village in the hills of Bakony, to where his parents were sent to work as teachers after their college. Once they were transferred to work as political administrators to Veszprém somewhat later, Tóth attended the town’s elementary school, while his father worked at the party committee now, and his mother in the trade union. Due to his parents position the family eventually was able to return to Budapest again, where Tóth from 1974 on for another six years continued attending ordinary school, later on changing to Kölcsey Secondary Grammar School, until - he was just in its second grade then - his parents suddenly had to pack up and move to Moscow, where his father was appointed in 1982 to work in the diplomatic corps. Following his parents to the Soviet Union, Tóth lived there without intermisson from 1984 to 1990, initially suffering from this change as a painful cut in his life. "Yet", as Tóth admitted years later, "now I think it was an advantage, because from 1983 onwards, up until now, from Breznyev and all through I have been an eye-witness of everything that happened in the empire. And I am at home in Moscow as well."

Tóth’s artistic biography however goes back to already the mid 70-ies, when he, in the age of 10, was one of the founding members of Europe’s first Child Animation Film Studio, run by film director Ferenc Varsányi then in Budapest. Initially wanting to study directing at the Academy of Drama and Film (now University of Theatre and Film Arts) in Budapest, Tóth however switched to Moscow after first round, where he passed the entrance examination at Moscow’s famous All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK, now Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography) in 1985 and graduated there as film director in 1990 with his diploma film „Madman and Angel”, made together with Sergey Kozlov as his cinematographer. Three years later, Tamás Tóth finally also debuted as full-length feature film director in his multiple award-winning Russian-Hungarian co-production „Children of Cast Iron Gods” (commonly more often just referred to as „Children of Iron Gods”).

Filmography

 * 1987: „Rio”, short film, 30 min - director
 * 1987: „Doctor Vidor Minorka’s Great Day” (Doktor Minorka Vidor nagy napja), feature film by András Sólyom - assistant director
 * 1989/1990: „Madman and Angel” (Őrült és angyal / Сумасшедший и ангел), short film (HU/SU), 48 min - director, screenplay writer
 * 1993: „Children of Cast Iron Gods” (Vasisten gyermekei / Дети чугунных богов), feature film (RU/HU), 78 min - director
 * 1995: „Governors of Empire” (Birodalmi helytartók), TV documentary series, 2x35 min - director, director of photography
 * 1995/1996: „The Fall of the KGB” (A KGB alkonya), TV documentary series, 3x45 min - director, director of photography
 * 1998: „Natasha” (Natasa / Наташа), feature film (HU/RU), 90 min - director, screenplay writer
 * 1999: „The Knife” (A kés), TV short film, 30 min - director, screenplay writer
 * 2000/2001: „Anarchists” (Anarchisták), feature film, 80 min - director, screenplay writer
 * 2002/2003: „Kitchen” (Konyha), short film (with László Kollár-Klemencz), 13 min - director
 * 2002/2003: „Rinaldo” (Rinaldó), feature film, 82 min - director, screenplay writer
 * 2004: „About Bharatanatyam” (Bharatanatyam), TV documentary, 20 min - director
 * 2004: „Kornel” (Kornél), TV short film, 28 min - director, screenplay writer
 * 2006: „Caddilac Drive”, TV documentary series, 1st-6th episode, 6x45 min - director
 * 2007: „Wolf” (Farkas / Волк), feature film (HU/RU), 72 min - director, screenplay writer, editor
 * 2008/2009: „Yantra”, experimental dance film, 17 min - director
 * 2010: „Guru”, feature documentary (HU/IN), 72 min - director, screenplay writer
 * 2014: „Budapest Bar - The Film” (Budapest Bar), TV documentary, 52 min - director
 * 2014/2015: „Homeland” (Родина), TV series (RU) - codirector
 * 2015: „Over the Moon” (Holdon át), experimental film, 20 min - director
 * 2015: „Szentendre Swamimalai”, TV documentary, 52 min - director
 * 2016: „One must live” (Élni muszáj), TV documentary, 60 min - director
 * 2018: „Shyrakshy. The Guardian of the Light”, feature film by Ermek Tursynov (KZ), 95 min - assistant director
 * 2018: „Never, Always and a Wink” (A Soha, a Mindig és a Pillanat), TV documentary, 52 min - director, screenplay writer
 * 2019: „Dreambush” (Álombozót), TV documentary, 52 min - director, screenplay writer
 * 2020: „The Bird of Paradise” (A paradocsommadár), TV documentary, 52 min - director, screenplay writer
 * 2012/2022: „Frici & Aranka”, TV feature film, 81 min - director
 * 2022: „Obsessed with Finesse” (A mívesség megszállottja), TV documentary, 52 min - director, screenplay writer
 * 2022/2023: „Oliara”, feature film (KZ) - director (work in progress)

Awards

 * 1993 „Children of Cast Iron Gods” (Vasisten gyermekei / Дети чугунных богов)
 * 1993 Best Cinematographer Award for Sergey Kozlov at the „Kinotavr“ Film Festival, Sochi
 * 1993 Prize of the Russian Film Club Federation at the „Kinotavr“ Film Festival Sochi
 * 1993 Special Prize of the Italian Film Clubs at the Independent Film Festival Rom
 * 1994 Main Prize at the „Magyar Filmszemle“ (Hungarian Film Week) Budapest
 * 1994 NIKA Award of the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts for Best Screenplay for Pyotr Lutsik and Aleksey Samoryadov, together with 2 NIKA nominations for Best Director and Best Cinematographer
 * 1995/1996 „The Fall of the KGB” (A KGB alkonya)
 * 1996 Directory Prize in Documentary Category at the „Magyar Filmszemle“ (Hungarian Film Week) Budapest
 * 2002/2003 „Rinaldo” (Rinaldó)
 * 2003 Best Supporting Actor Award for Lajos Kovács at the „Magyar Filmszemle“ (Hungarian Film Week) Budapest
 * 2007 „Wolf” (Farkas / Волк)
 * 2008 Best Director Award at the European Independent Film Festival Paris