Name Laszlo Jr. Spouse Judit Rajk | Role Architect Awards Kossuth Prize | |
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Parents Laszlo Rajk, Julianna Foldi Nominations ADG Excellence in Production Design Awards - Television Movie or Mini-Series Similar People Laszlo Rajk, Gabor Bachmann, Agnes Hranitzky, Anastasia Masaro, Gabor Body | ||
László Rajk Jr. (born 1949 Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian architect, designer and political activist.
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As an architect, he became the member of the Hungarian avantgarde movement. From 1975 he joined the Democratic Opposition, the underground political movement in Hungary, therefore from 1980 he was blacklisted, and was not allowed to work under his own name. In 1981 with Gábor Demszky (Mayor of Budapest from 1990) he founded the independent, underground AB Publishing House, and ran an illegal bookstore from his apartment called "Samizdat Boutique". In 1988 he was one of the founder of the Network of Free Initiatives and the liberal party, the Alliance of Free Democrats, and served six years in the Hungarian Parliament after free elections in 1990. Recently he has worked as an architect and a production designer for films and taught film architecture at the Hungarian Film Academy in Budapest.
Politics
Rajk is the son of the well known show trial victim, Hungary's foreign minister László Rajk. Rajk is famous in his own right for anti-regime activities.
Awards
He is a Chevalier dans l'Ordre National du Merite, 1999, France.
Film sets
Over 25 years' experience in building filmsets for international and Hungarian films and documentaries including: