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- László Rajk (1949) a practicing architect, production designer, professor of film architecture at the University of Theatre and Film in Budapest. A former dissident, human rights activist. He became the member of the Hungarian avantgarde movement in the seventies. From 1975 he was a member of the Hungarian Democratic Opposition, and in 1981 with Gábor Demszky (Major of Budapest 1990-2010) founded the underground AB Publishing House, and ran an illegal bookstore in his apartment called "Samizdat Boutique". In 1988 Rajk was one of the founders of the liberal party, the Alliance of Free Democrats (SZDSZ), and had been an MP for six years after the first free elections. Between 2004-2010 he was the member of the Executive Board of the Hungarian National Television Public Fund. Rajk's own artistic contribution to 1989 was the architectural installation of the final farewell ceremony of the Martyrs of the 1956 Revolution. Designer of several Hungarian and international movie productions.- IMDb mini biography by: www.rajk.info
- SpouseJudit Rajk(1991 - present)
- In 1981 with Gábor Demszky (who later became Mayor of Budapest) he founded the independent, underground AB Publishing House, and ran an illegal bookstore from his apartment called "Samizdat Boutique".
- Founding member of SzDSz (Hungary's Liberal Party). Was member of the Hungarian Parliement between 1990 and 1996.
- His mother was inprisoned after Rajk Sr. was executed (1949). The 1-year-old Rajk Jr. was raised by others, until his mother got free in 1954.
- Son of László Rajk, one of the leaders of the Hungarian Communist Party in the late 1940. He was foreign minister, but was executed with fake reasons in 1949. Many consider his 1956 reinternment (attended by hundreds of thousands!) the start of the Hungarian Revolution of October 1956.
- Acclaimed Hungarian architect, designer, university professor. Teaching Film Architecture at the Budapest Film Academy.
- [on Le fils de Saul (2015)] I designed the Hungarian exhibition in Auschwitz in the Auschwitz museum over a decade ago, so I had all the research and almost everything ready. The blueprints of those buildings [gas chambers and crematoria] survive. They were found in the offices after the liberation of the camp. There is all of this data about how it was designed. That is a striking phenomenon. It's a very thoughtful design. It's professional work. It was hand-drawn, so it's really this almost human touch in the drawing. But it really raises the responsibility of professionals in general, whether you accept a job like this or not. Sometimes my stomach would shrink to think that someone in the morning was taking a shower and was thinking about how to create a more effective crematorium. [2016]
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