Fruzsina Skrabski
Born
Fruzsina Skrabski

November 22, 1975 (age 46)
Budapest
NationalityHungarian
EducationUniversity of Szeged, University of Pecs
SpouseDavid Meszaros
ChildrenLuca Skrabski
AwardsKnight's Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit, For Budapest Award

Fruzsina Annamaria Skrabski (Budapest, 22 November, 1975) Hungarian director, producer, screenwriter and journalist. She was born out of the marriage of Maria Kopp and Aprad Skrabski. Her husband is entrepreneur David Meszaros. As a filmmaker she is mostly active in the genre of documentaries. So far, she has seventeen films to her name, out of which twelve are documentaries. Her films deal mostly with topics of Hungarian history, politics and society. Her first and also most well-known film is Crime Unpunished about Bela Biszku that she made in 2010 with Tamas Novak.[1][2] Her other well-known film is Silenced Shame made in 2013, which is a documentary about the Hungarian women raped by Soviet soldiers in the Second World War.[3][4] She is the present head of the Three Princes, Three Princesses Movement, and they award the Kopp-Skrabski Prize as well.[5]

Personal life

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Fruzsina Skrabski was born to renowned physician and psychologist Maria Kopp and engineer-sociologist Arpad Skrabski

in Budapest. She has an older sister, Luca. Skrabski could not fit into elementary school, and later became a difficult, ebellious teen, who failed junior year and was fired from high school, so she hitchhiked her way to Gibraltar, then took a motorcycle ride to Luxembourg. After having been fired from school her parents did not look for a new school for her, she was homeschooled, and finally, she managed to be admitted to Budakeszi by herself.


Skrabski started her higher education in 1996 at the Budapest Media Institute of the University of Szeged where she raduated in communicatons in 2000. Between 2003 and 2006 she attended the Communicational Programme of the Faculty of Humanities' Doctoral School of Linguistics of the University of Pecs. In 2004 Skrabski married David Meszaros, an entrepreneur in the field of online advertizement. They tried having a child for a long time. Finally, in 2014, after 10 years of attempt, their daughter was born as a test tube baby. As a practicing catholic she fights for the acceptance of ethical in vitro fertilisation. Her father had died in 2009 and her mother passed away in 2021; after which she took over the running of Three Princes, Three Princesses Movement that was founded by them.[6]

Career

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Skrabski's first job was between 2000 and 2002 at Magyar Nemzet (English: "Hungarian Nation"), where she worked as a journalist on the foreign policy column then later on the magazine column. Later she also worked as a war correspondent in Macedonia. At the same time from 2000 she also worked as editor-in-chief of Feszekrako Magazin (English: "Nesting Magazine"). After Magyar Nemzet she worked on the domestic policy column at Esti Hírlap in 2003, then in 2004 she became the press officer of the press office and stayed in that role until 2006.

She had a women's column from 2005 in the monthly magazine Utolso Figyelmeztetes (Ufi) (English: "Final Warning"), which then transformed into Reakcio (English: Reaction). This turned into Reakcio blog. Skrabski was amongst the first in Hungary who started writing a blog. She used her penname Lola Lelky to write her blog. In connection to this she also made vlogs and videos and published them on their Reakcio TV channel on Youtube. Later the blog changed its name to Mandiner that Skrabski owned along with the website of the same name; she still publishes there. This chapter of her life ended in 2012. This is when they started to look for the "biggest communist alive" with Tamas Novak who was her colleague at Reakcio. This is how they found Bela Biszku, which was turned into their first film Crime Unpunished. Together with Tamas Novak they since have a workshop and they are making films together.[7]

Between 2011 and 2012 she acted as editor/director for HetiValasz's (English: Monthly Reply) internet magazine Becsengetunk es elfutunk (English: We Ring the Doorbell and Run). After this from 2012 Skrabski directed, hosted and produced MTVA's Becsengetunk es elfutunk monthly investigative documentary series up until 2013.



From 2012 she also took over the running of Harom Kiralyfi, Harom Kiralylany Mozgalom. She is currently also blogging on her Facebook page. Since 2018 Skrabski is the president of the Directors section in the section of creators films distributed

for television of the Hungarian Film Academy.

Works

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Documentaries

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  • Bűn és büntetlenség (2010) (English: Crime Unpunished)
  • Becsengetünk és elfutunk (2012) (English: We Ring the Doorbell and Run)
  • Elhallgatott gyalázat (2013) (English: Silenced Shame)
  • Befogad és kitaszít a világ (http://www.film-documentaire.fr/4DACTION/w_fiche_film/40521_1)
  • (2013) (English: A Matter of Death and Life)
  • Kényszerszinglik (2014) (English: Sadly Single)
  • Csepeli kettősgyilkosság (2014) (English: The Csepel Double Murder)
  • Lejáratás és bomlasztás – A hálózat örök (2014) (English: Discredit and Devide)
  • Történet a mangalicáról (2014) (English: Story of the Mangalitsa)
  • Katonatörténet (2015) (English: A Soldier's tale)
  • 133 nap (2015) (English: 133 Days)
  • Meghalni Ukrajnáért (2017) (English: To Die for Ukraine)
  • Szétszakadt Magyarország (2017) (English: Hungary Torn Apart)
  • Népirtás Pozsonyligetfalun (2020) (English: Genocide in Pozsonyligetfalu/Petržalka)
  • Traumáinkon innen és túl (2021) (English: Moving Past Trauma)
  • Megörökölt gyalázat (2022) (English: Inherited Shame)

Science documentaries

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  • Városon kívüli találkozások (2014) (English: Close Encounters of the Rural Kind)
  • A balatoni halászat (2014) (English: Fishing the Balaton)
  • Vadásztársak (2018) (English: Hunting Partners)

Short film

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  • Győztes (2014) (English: Winner)

Animated

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  • Borka és a varázsruha (2014) (English: Borka and the magic dress)

Magazines

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  • Bírók, jog és halál (2011) (English: Judges, Law and Death)
  • Alkohol: éltet és öl (2011) (English: Alcohol: Vitalizes and Kills)
  • Jobbik és a Romák (2011) (English: Jobbik and the Romanies)
  • Drogdesign (2011) (English: Drug Design)
  • Szcientológia: elnyomók és elnyomottak (2011) (English: Scientology: Oppressors and Opresseds)
  • Sólyom végveszélyben 2. (2011) (English: Black Hawk Down 2.)[7]

Books

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About her

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  • Andras Csokay - Skrabski Fruzsina: Párbeszéd a megpróbáltatásról - a létről és jelenlétről (
  • Eghajlat Konyvkiado, 2019) (English: A conversation about hardship - about existence and
  • presence)

Awards, acknowledgements

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  • Hungarian Order of Merit's Knight's Cross (2012)
  • Budapestert díj (2018) (English: For Budapest Award)

Movie awards

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  • A Magyar Mozgokep Szemle (English: Hungarian Motion Picture Award) (Budapest) Best Short
  • Documentary (Nepirtas Pozsonyligetfalun)
  • EduFilm Festival (Eperjes) Best Documentary (Nepirtas Pozsonyligetfalun)
  • Kiez Berlin Film Festival (https://filmfreeway.com/KiezBerlinFilmFestival) (Berlin) Best Histroy Film
  • Award (Nepirtas Pozsonyligetfalun)
  • Kamera Korrektura (English: Camera Proof) (Budapest) 1st place in Documentary Category
  • (Silenced Shame)
  • Film for peace (http://www.unfilmperlapace.it/paceeng.html) fesztival (Trieste) Special Award
  • (Silenced Shame)
  • Tracce Cinematografiche Film Fest (http://www.traccecinematografichefilmfest.it/traccecinematogr
  • afichefilmfest/Home.html) (Rome) Special Award (Crime Unpunished)
  • International Film Festival Agrofilm (http://www.agrofilm.sk/index.php/en/) (Nyitra) Special Award of
  • Nyitra's mayor (Történet a mangalicáról)
  • International Film Festival Agrofilm (Nyitra) Special Award (Global Menu)
  • Nemzetkozi Tudomanyos Film Fesztival (http://festival.tiszamozi.hu/000_Fesztivalok/2017/)
  • (English: International Science Film Festival) (Szolnok) Grand Prize (Global Menu)
  • Godolloi Termeszetfilm Fesztival (https://www.godollofilmfest.com/) (English: Godollo Nature Film
  • Festival) (Godollo) Special Award (Vadásztársak)
  • Pecs & Komlo Het Domb Fesztival (English: Pecs & Komlo Seven Hills Festival) (Pecs)
  • Cinematographer Award (Vadásztársak)
  • NewsFest (Las Vegas) Runner Up Winner – Best International Educational Subject

Documentaries

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  • Pecs & Komlo Het Domb Fesztival (English: Pecs & Komlo Seven Hills Festival) (Pecs)
  • cinematographer award (Vadásztársak)
  • NewsFest (Las Vegas) 2nd place
  1. ^ Archív (2010-06-17). "Documentary on '56 retributions minister screened". kultúra.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2023-05-24.
  2. ^ Files, Orange (2013-10-31). "Why Just Now?". The Orange Files. Retrieved 2023-05-24.
  3. ^ "'Silenced Shame': Hungarian Women Remember Wartime Rapes". Washington Post. 2021-11-30. Retrieved 2023-05-24.
  4. ^ "Gender, Violence, and Political Activism: A Mini Course and Workshop Series". liberalarts.vt.edu. Retrieved 2023-05-24.
  5. ^ "Három Királyfi". www.haromkiralyfi.hu. Retrieved 2023-05-24.
  6. ^ "Hungary's 'baby flag' movement celebrates each new life with this symbol". Remix News. 2020-08-26. Retrieved 2023-05-24.
  7. ^ a b "Fruzsina Skrabski". HDA. Retrieved 2023-05-24.