Can Togay

Born: 1955-08-27

Can Togay (Turkish: [ˈdʒan ˈtoɡaj]; born August 27, 1955), also known as János Can Togay, is a Hungarian film director, screenwriter, actor, poet, producer, cultural manager and cultural diplomat. Can Togay was born the son of Turkish parents. He spent his childhood in Germany. In 1969, he joined the Péter Halász troupe. Between 1973 and 1978, he studied on the German and English faculty of Eötvös Loránd University, followed by two years of post-graduate work on German-French comparative linguistics under Jean-Marie Zemb of the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris. He finished in 1980. In 1984, he graduated from the faculty of direction of the Színház- és Filmművészeti Főiskola (College of Theatrical and Video Arts) in Budapest as the student of Zoltán Fábri. In 1991 he moved to Finland for four years. His 1992 film A nyaraló was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival. In 1978, he had poems published in the Mozgó Világ (Moving World). In 2004, his first collection of poems was released by the publisher Aranykor Kiadó (Golden Age Publisher). He conceived the idea of the Holocaust Memorial Cipők a Duna-parton (Shoes on the Danube Promenade) in Budapest, and was also a co-maker of it with Gyula Pauer. Since January 1, 2008, he is the head of the Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, the Hungarian Institute for Science and Culture in the German capital and the cultural attaché of the Hungarian Embassy.


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Sniper 2

as Captain Marks
Released: 2002-12-28

A former Marine sniper is lured back in on a top-secret mission to take out a rogue general...

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Jupiter's Moon

as Chief Police Officer
Released: 2017-11-01

A young refugee, Aryan, is shot while illegally trying to cross the Hungarian border. While...

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Malina

as Ivan
Released: 1991-01-17

An unusual story of a triangular relationship in Vienna. A woman shares an apartment with a man...

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The Blue Exile

as Cevat Sakir
Released: 1993-05-27

Mavi Sürgün is a fictionalized account of one period of the life of a Turkish journalist who was...

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Bir Sonbahar Hikayesi

as uncredited
Released: 1994-04-15

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The Bridgeman

as Lajos Batthyányi
Released: 2002-04-10

This epic story takes place between 1820 and 1860 during the Habsburg Monarchy, and portrays the...

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Happy New Year London

as Enver
Released: 2007-12-28

What if the unexpected becomes your faith? Would you lay claim to it and stay or would you run...

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Petőfi '73

as Kossuth Lajos
Released: 1973-06-16

Using high-school students, Hungarian director Ferenc Kardos re-created the 1848 revolutionary...

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Forced March

as Zoltan
Released: 1989-11-03

Ben Kline is an American television star and a bankable name, who is cast to portray the...

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Bereményi kalapja

as uncredited
Released: 2022-09-22

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The Book of Esther

as uncredited
Released: 1989-01-01

During World War II Eszter has to choose: she either follows her husband abroad, who is chased...

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