# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-forgacs
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:45:19.751Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-forgacs"
name: "Péter Forgács"
slug: "peter-forgacs"
description: "'Péter Forgács Hungarian media artist and filmmaker. Best known for his \"Private Hungary\" series of award-winning films based on found-footage home movies from 1930s to the 1970s, which document ordinary lives that were soon to be ruptured by an extraordinary historical trauma that occurs off-screen."
tagline: "Hungarian filmmaker (born 1950)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Forg%C3%A1cs_P%C3%A9ter_(media_artist).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1950-09-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.35
  momentum:             0.6593406593406594
  historical:           12.27365066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0286282/"
    handle:    "nm0286282"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.forgacspeter.hu/english"
sources:
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    title: "Форгач, Петер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B3"
    title: "بيتر فورجاكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B3"
    title: "بيتر فورجاكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A9ter_Forg%C3%A1cs_(Medienk%C3%BCnstler)"
    title: "Péter Forgács (Medienkünstler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A0%CE%AE%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%81_%CE%A6%CF%8C%CF%81%CE%B3%CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%84%CF%82"
    title: "Πήτερ Φόργκατς"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A9ter_Forg%C3%A1cs"
    title: "Péter Forgács"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A9ter_Forg%C3%A1cs_(plurmediisto)"
    title: "Péter Forgács (plurmediisto)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%DB%8C%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%DA%AF%D8%A7%DA%86"
    title: "پیتر فورگاچ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A9ter_Forg%C3%A1cs"
    title: "Péter Forgács"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forg%C3%A1cs_P%C3%A9ter_(m%C3%A9diam%C5%B1v%C3%A9sz)"
    title: "Forgács Péter (médiaművész)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%AB%E3%82%AC%E3%83%81%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9A%E3%83%BC%E3%83%86%E3%83%AB"
    title: "フォルガチ・ペーテル"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A9ter_Forg%C3%A1cs"
    title: "Péter Forgács"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A9ter_Forg%C3%A1cs"
    title: "Péter Forgács"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A9ter_Forg%C3%A1cs"
    title: "Péter Forgács"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q238881"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1173690"
    title: "Péter Forgács"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump