| Attila Bertalan | |
| Occupation: | film director, actor, screenwriter |
| Known For: | A Bullet in the Head |
| Alma Mater: | University of British Columbia |
Attila Bertalan is a Canadian actor and filmmaker.[1] 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.[2]
Originally from British Columbia,[2] 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[3] and winning Best Director and Best Fiction Film in 1984 for The Roomer.[4] 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.[5]
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).[6]
Bertalan's second film, Between the Moon and Montevideo, was released in 2000.[7] A science fiction film set on a space station, the film starred Bertalan, Gerard Gagnon and Pascale Bussières.[8]