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Overview

  • 6 references 3 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French, Hungarian; learning Russian
  • 34, Male
  • Member since 2014
  • Student
  • Filmmaking
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

Je parle français. Beszélek magyarul. Я говорю по-русский (ТРКИ-I)

I have studied editing and filmaking in filmschool.
I've been travelling since a child: in those times my mother would wake us up at 7h in the morning and send us to bed at midnight saying: "you will have plenty of time to sleep when you will die".
Laughing is my favorite vital activity.

PHILOSOPHY
" Ad Astra per Aspera "

Interests

Cinema, politics, history, litterature, sociology, music, travelling, languages, etc.
I like books, films and travels, but I know that sometime the better adventures and knowledges lie in the stories that someone told you from the other side of a table.
I have to admit I like to talk, but I like as much to listen.

The kid inside me still wants to be Indiana Jones, and as he still has a lot of influence, every occasion is good for me to jump, climb, swim and hike.

  • books
  • dining
  • cooking
  • politics
  • movies
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • music
  • hiking
  • swimming
  • history
  • languages
  • sociology

Music, Movies, and Books

Films: Spielbergs's film marked my childhood and my life without asking permission. Leone's films made me realize what I want to do in life. Those of Woody Allen, Bergman or Scorsese tought me that style can make even the streets of my city and the anguishes of my mother interesting. The masterpiece's of Welles and Tarkovsky imposed me respect for cinema's gods and those of Perreault, Groulx and Brault that a filmaker is nothing without the society he lives in.

When I'm alone I listen classical music most of the time, but I like discoveries.

Books: Russian classics, history books and memoirs, Don Quichotte and La Grosse femme d'à côté est enceinte. I'm undereducated in poetry which makes me shameful.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Being part of Quebec's 2012 student strike, directing shortfilms, travelling in an ore train in the middle of Mauritania and peeling potatoes in a courtyard of Kamyanets-Podilsky.

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm learning russian and I want to learn more!
I can teach you french and the amazing secrets of the quebecois swearing. But I also have a good level of english for any kind of discussion.
And I cook very tasty hungarian food, directly from my grandmother's receipts.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Thoughts, ideas, hopes and funny or sad stories.

Countries I’ve Visited

Benin, Burkina Faso, Cuba, Egypt, Guinea, Hungary, Italy, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Romania, Russian Federation, Senegal, Turkey, Ukraine, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada

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