Attila Bertalan is a Canadian actor and filmmaker. He is most noted
for his 1990 film A Bullet in the Head, which was selected as Canada's
submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in
1991.Originally from British Columbia, Bertalan was twice honoured by
the Canadian Student Film Festival while he was a film student at the
University of British Columbia, receiving an honourable mention in
1982 for The Glass Door and winning Best Director and Best Fiction
Film in 1984 for The Roomer. Later based in Montreal, he acted in
several films, including Bashar Shbib's Seductio, Clair Obscur and 15
Ugly Sisters, while making A Bullet in the Head. The film, a war
allegory about an injured soldier's struggle to survive in unfamiliar
territory, was spoken entirely in an invented language.In 1992, A
Bullet in the Head was screened by the Museum of Modern Art in New
York City as part of a Canadian film series that also included Léa
Pool's The Savage Woman (La Demoiselle sauvage) and André Forcier's
An Imaginary Tale (Une histoire inventée).Bertalan's second film,
Between the Moon and Montevideo, was released in 2000. A science
fiction film set on a space station, the film starred Bertalan, Gerard
Gagnon and Pascale Bussières.
for his 1990 film A Bullet in the Head, which was selected as Canada's
submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in
1991.Originally from British Columbia, Bertalan was twice honoured by
the Canadian Student Film Festival while he was a film student at the
University of British Columbia, receiving an honourable mention in
1982 for The Glass Door and winning Best Director and Best Fiction
Film in 1984 for The Roomer. Later based in Montreal, he acted in
several films, including Bashar Shbib's Seductio, Clair Obscur and 15
Ugly Sisters, while making A Bullet in the Head. The film, a war
allegory about an injured soldier's struggle to survive in unfamiliar
territory, was spoken entirely in an invented language.In 1992, A
Bullet in the Head was screened by the Museum of Modern Art in New
York City as part of a Canadian film series that also included Léa
Pool's The Savage Woman (La Demoiselle sauvage) and André Forcier's
An Imaginary Tale (Une histoire inventée).Bertalan's second film,
Between the Moon and Montevideo, was released in 2000. A science
fiction film set on a space station, the film starred Bertalan, Gerard
Gagnon and Pascale Bussières.
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