Attila Bertalan is a

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actor and filmmaker. He is most noted for his 1990 film '' A Bullet in the Head'', which was selected as Canada's submission for the

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in 1991."Bullet in the Head chosen for Oscar consideration". ''

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'', November 13, 1991. Originally from

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, Bertalan was twice honoured by the Canadian Student Film Festival while he was a film student at the

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, receiving an honourable mention in 1982 for ''The Glass Door'' and winning Best Director and Best Fiction Film in 1984 for ''The Roomer''. Later based in

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, 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. In 1992, ''A Bullet in the Head'' was screened by the

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as part of a Canadian film series that also included

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's '' The Savage Woman (La Demoiselle sauvage)'' and

André Forcier André Forcier (born Marc-André Forcier on July 19, 1947) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. His work has been linked to Latin American magic realism by its use of fantasy but is firmly rooted in Quebec's reality. His unromanticized, ...

's ''

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(Une histoire inventée)''. Bertalan's second film, '' Between the Moon and Montevideo'', was released in 2000. A science fiction film set on a space station, the film starred Bertalan, Gerard Gagnon and

Pascale Bussières Pascale Bussières (born June 27, 1968) is a French Canadian actress. Her credits include ''Sonatine (1984 film), Sonatine'' (1984), ''Eldorado (1995 film), Eldorado'' (1995), ''When Night Is Falling'' (1995), ''August 32nd on Earth (Un 32 août s ...

.Glen Schaefer, "Wacky and witless with fine acting". ''

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'', June 1, 2001.

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