Ernő Mesterházy
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Ernő Mesterházy (not to be mistaken with
Attila Mesterházy Attila Mesterházy (born 30 January 1974) is a Hungarian politician, who served as the seventh chairman of the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) from 10 July 2010 to 29 May 2014. He was a Member of Parliament between 2004 and 2022. He was the par ...
of the
Hungarian Socialist Party The Hungarian Socialist Party (, ), commonly known by its acronym MSZP (), is a centre-left to left-wing social-democratic and pro-European political party in Hungary. It was founded on 7 October 1989 as a post-communist evolution and one of t ...
) has been a chief counsellor to
Gábor Demszky Gábor Demszky (, born 4 August 1952) is a Hungarian politician, lawyer and sociologist by qualification. Demszky was the Mayor of Budapest from 1990 to 2010. He was a founding member of the Alliance of Free Democrats (SZDSZ) between 1988 and ...
, mayor of Budapest. Mesterházy is an influential and powerful businessman, a film producer, and owns a record company too, Bahia Music. Ernő Mesterházy has been working not only as a counsellor to Demszky but also he had an authorization, a contract to represent Demszky in financial matters of Budapest including Metro building and BKV (Budapest's public transport company). Although he's been doing this for several years his contract was signed only in summer 2009.


Film production career

Mesterházy has been involved in the film industry since the early 1990s. Between 1993 and 2002 he produced a documentary series in South-East Asia called ''Indiék'' with Gábor Rohonyi, Nimród Antal and István Szaladják as the directors and István Szatmáry and Péter Vajda as cameramen. Since 2007 together with his wife Mónika Mécs, he has actively participated in producing feature films. The first significant success was 2007 film's week surprise, where they won the audience's vote with their film called ''The End''. After this time period they received more Hungarian and International recognition and acknowledgement. One of the most significant national prizes Mesterházy won was with the Hungarian film called ''Just the Wind'', which was directed by Benedek Fliegauf. The film competed at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Jury Grand Prix. In 2017 at the Berlin International Film Festival they won the Golden Bear in the main competition section with their film called '' On Body and Soul'' directed by
Ildikó Enyedi Ildikó Enyedi (; born 15 November 1955) is a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. She is best known for directing ''On Body and Soul'', which won the top prize at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival among other awards, and was nom ...
. Furthermore, the Sydney Film Festival wrapped up their 64th fest by naming ''On Body and Soul'' the winner of that year's Sydney Film Prize.


References

*http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2509625/ *http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5607714/?ref_=nm_knf_i1 *https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sydney-festival-ildiko-enyedi-s-body-soul-wins-film-prize-1014597 {{DEFAULTSORT:Mesterhazy, Erno Hungarian politicians Living people 1963 births