乔治·科瓦斯奈，György Kovásznai (1934-1983) was born on 15 May 1934 in Budapest, Hungary.In 1944 Kovásznai's foster father was called upon for military service in Austria with his family. During their time away from Budapest the family lost their home, and all of their personal belongings. Returning to Budapest at the end of 1944, the family had to start life all over again, and lived in poverty from that time onwards.Kovásznai attended the Budapest College of the Fine Arts, but gave up his studies in 1954, at the age of 20. He then worked as a miner for a year and a half, in an effort to get some first-hand experience with the working class. However, the artist soon became completely disillusioned, as he found that "people hate struggle, great slogans and politics. They pay attention to them only as long as they suffer from them..."In 1956 Kovásznai was readmitted to the Budapest College of the Fine Arts, but was dismissed the following year before receiving his diploma.From 1958 to 1974 he worked as the editor and columnist of Nagyvilág, a significant Hungarian arts and literary journal, in which he published some of his criticism and paintings. He came to know writers and literature critics during his time at the journal.Around the same time, in the late 1950's, Kovásznai started holding semi-illegal artistic gatherings at a friend's house. An avant-garde artist community of 50-200 people came together several times a week, until the end of the 1960's. It emerged decades later that his best friend, who hosted these sessions, had been passing on information about Kovásznai to the counterintelligence agency throughout the years.In 1961 Kovásznai started to work at the Pannonia Film Studio, Hungary's main animation film studio, initially as a playwright, but soon moving on to make his own films. He continued to work at the studio until his death in 1983. Over the course of his career at the studio he made 26 short films, a mini TV-series and a musical-animation feature film. Howev