Katalin Gödrös

Director and Script Writer

About Filmography Work samples News and dates

1969 born in Zurich, Switzerland

after graduation she studies film production at SZFE film university in Budapest, Ungaria

Katalin lives and works in Berlin since 1996, initially line producing for “Sexy Sadie” (dir. Matthias Glasner) and “L’Amour” (dir. Philipp Gröning), later as co-writer and co-producer on “Almost Heaven” (dir. Ed Herzog), finally as screenwriter and director.

Katalin Gödrös debuts as director with her feature film “Mutanten”, which premieres 2002 at Berlin Film Festival.

in 2012 she is granted a fellowship at Writer’s Binger Filmlab, Amsterdam

Languages
German, Hungarian (fluent), English (fluent), Italian (fluent), French (intermediate)
Cinema & TV (selection)
2022
Jakob's Steed based on the novel of the same name by Silvia Tschui
Director and Script Consultant
Turnus Film
feature film
2018
Zodiac Pictures for ARD/SRF
TV movie
2017
The Undertaker – 3 Episodes
Director
snake films for SRF
TV series
2016
Director
12th Intl. Zurich Film Festival 2016
Turnus Film for SRF1
TV movie
The Undertaker – 3 Episodes
Director
snake films for SRF
TV series
2015
The Undertaker – False Friends
Director
snake films for SRF
TV series episode
2010
Director and Script
63rd Festival del Film Locarno "Concorso Internazionale" 2010
44th Intl. Hofer Filmtage 2010
26th Warschau Film Festival 2010
32nd Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize 2011
40th Intl. Film Festival Rotterdam 2011
and many more
CH Cobra Film AG
feature film
2009
The Swimmer nach dem gleichnamigen Roman von ZsuZsa Bánk
Script
Unafilm Berlin
feature film
2004
Lou's Launderette
Director
11e Cinéma Tout Écran Genf 2005
Solothurn Filmtage 2006
CH Cobra Film AG for SRF
TV movie
2002
Mutants
Director and Script
Berlin Film Festival 2002 - Perspective German Cinema
Egoli Tossel Film AG with ZDF Das kleine Fernsehspiel
feature film
1997
Play
Director and Script
Best Film Award Civitanova Marche, Italien
short film
scripts in development

The Vanishing of Philip S. feature film based on Ulrike Edschmid’s novel of the same name (in development)
director and screenwriter

In Absentia feature film
(in development with support by Societé Suisse des Auteurs)
director and screenwriter

Jakob's Steed
based on the novel of the same name by Silvia Tschui
(2022)
feature film, Turnus Film
Director: Katalin Gödrös
Script Consultant: Katalin Gödrös
with Luna Wedler, Valentin Postlmayr, Max Hubacher
Tatort – Out for the Count
(2018)
TV movie, Zodiac Pictures for ARD/SRF
DoP: Jutta Pohlmann
Nowhere
(2016)
TV movie, Turnus Film for SRF1
with Ursina Lardi, Eugene Boateng, Marcus Signer
12th Intl. Zurich Film Festival 2016
Songs of Love and Hate
(2010)
feature film, CH Cobra Film AG
Director: Katalin Gödrös
Script: Katalin Gödrös
with Joel Basman, Ursina Lardi, Jeroen Willems, Sarah Horváth
63rd Festival del Film Locarno "Concorso Internazionale" 2010
44th Intl. Hofer Filmtage 2010
26th Warschau Film Festival 2010
32nd Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize 2011
40th Intl. Film Festival Rotterdam 2011
and many more

 

Director Katalin Gödrös adaptation of Sivia Tschui’s period novel Jakob’s Steed with Luna Wedler in the lead will premiere at 59th Solothurner Filmtage 2024. Swiss company Turnus Film produced.