Budapest is today one of the world
centers of the porn industry. Throughout the Hungarian capital, the studios, the
model agencies and the porn production centers multiply. That the girls are
beautiful and devoid of prejudices and money helps explain the phenomenon. But
not just that.
One must have into account the rapid
and traumatic changes of the societies of the East, which in a few years,
emerged from communism to savage capitalism, regimens with a common feature:
the absolute contempt for people.
Porn is certainly a
consequence of these disorders, but also the metaphorical mirror of a society
with characters without soul that is our: pornographic.
In the main roles: Kovi, the
pornographer looking for a place for is stories, Alex, that manufactures
stories, and Michelle Wild, that has in the head all the stories.
Of all the European capitals of the
East, none is so lovely. The elegance of the women at the Café Gerbeaud, the
animation of the conversations on the terraces of Vorosmarty Square, the
inspiration of the musicians on Rakpart walk along the Danube, make us feel in
the center of Europe.
Who knew that these were just over
ten years, the sad streets of a communist capital! No other European city has
modernized so quickly, no one breathes this freedom, this readiness for what is
new.
In a few years, Budapest became theworld capital of pornographic video. The offices of LuxxVideo, Kovi’s company,
are in the Bajcsy-Zsilnszky Street in the center of Pest, the commercial area
of the city on the right bank of the Danube.
The entrance is discreet, but once
inside, there is no doubt that we are in a special world.
The walls are filled with
"hard-core" movie posters, on the ground there are piles of porn
tapes, and on the two desks facing the door, there are reams of erotic
material, including computers and faxes lined with indecent bumpers and two
receptionists straight out of a LuxxVideo movie.
Good businesses, like forces of
nature that they are, move forward on their own.
The legendary Kovi
The legendary Kovi Istvan Kovacs, of
its original name, father of the Hungarian porn industry: a titanic and ruddy
figure, a giant meatball with suspenders, cigar and mellifluous voice
Kovi accumulated two professions:
photographer and squash player.
“In
1989, I traveled abroad and saw that pornography was something that pleased
many people. Then I got the idea to start a business in this industry in
Hungary. At that time, there was nothing of the kind in any country in the
region. I was the first in all of Eastern Europe” he says, “When I started the pornography business, it
was just me, and I had to learn everything from the beginning.”
Kovi, alone with a video camera,
started hiring amateur models, rent small studios, and selling his first films.
Then he hired a cameraman and a few employees, had managed his first commercial
success and become unstoppable.
And famous.
Where the television did a story on
the thriving porn industry in the country, there it was the great Kovi giving
interviews and participating in debates.
Helped by his cyclopic and
languorous figure, he became a symbol. What attracted more customers and
investors and the business prospered beyond what Kovi had dared to dream.
Kovi, despite having, in the porn
industry, some heavyweight competitors, is recognized as the king.
Working for him full-time, he has
cameramen, light and sound technicians, executive producers, administrators,
assembly technicians and actors, on an exclusive basis. However, at the offices
or in the studios that the company also has, Kovi likes to centralize all the
work. He is the producer, director and screenwriter of all LuxxVideo movies,
which are already over 200.
The goal is to produce 20 films a
year, most of which, today, are ordered by Private, the largest sex multinational,
based in Barcelona.
Kovi also produces for an American
company, and another from Germany. But it is in Private that he sees the
future. They pay well and have no difficulty in drain everything that comes out
of the "porn assembly line" of Kovi.
The "porn assembly line" of Kovi
There is no problem that the actors
are always the same. In particular the male actors. What is needed is that, ineach work, there is a "guest star".
Sometimes foreign, for a change. But mostly Hungarian, like the rest of the
actors.
There are porn stars that earnfortunes and behave as authentic divas - women invariably, since that in this
business men's work is not very quoted. They just have to be able to stay on
the scene.
Each film is designed and
implemented as a single case. This is how the creative process unfolds: it all
starts at the head of Kovi, which generates an idea.
From this plot embryo, Kovi imagines
the actors and actresses that he needs and calls to one or more agents. Then he
thinks of the ideal plateau for the story, and with actors and actresses,
technicians and assistants, he goes there, without regard to distance or cost.
It is the tyranny of the content
over the form what really matters in a movie, explains Kovi. That's why his
films are different from the majority. "I never filmed a story like, boy enters the room, and young girl is
lying on the bed; he says: let's fuck" he explains. It is not only
sex. This is a very specific genre: the “fetish-film".
"It's time porn enters a new era," he says. "The era of quality. Because the public
demands it. There is no reason why these films, just because they are
pornographic, are bad.”
Alexander
Doka the second
Alexander Doka, perhaps the second
largest manager of Budapest pornographic video, distinguishes itself from Kovi,
above all, by this: while one imagines a story and then looks for the right
place to shoot, Alexander arranges the location first. Only after that he
creates a story to match.
His company, based in Budapest and
Los Angeles, has produced more than 200 films, owns five "sex-shops"
in Budapest, but it is on the Internet that he now focuses all his energy. It
is Alexander's vision: "The Internet
is the future. I already live in the future."
"I'm not here to win prizes like Kovi," said Alex. "This is no art."
The Hungarian porn star Michelle Wild
“It
is necessary to distinguish the sex and love. Friendship is stronger because it
is what often saves the love.”
Michelle Wild is one of the biggestporn stars of the 21st century. She has made dozens of movies and scenes with
Private. Her face is angelic, great beauty, 100% natural, and together with
Angel Dark the best breasts in all of Europe. Michelle was always linked to the
director Kovi.
For her, making an anal sex scene
was like going out for a walk in the park. Nowadays she is already retired a
long time from porn and known for presenting on Hungarian television.
“I
moved to Budapest and went to do 'strip' shows in a bar. I also worked in the
sex chat lines on the phone. It was a bad experience. I realized that it's easy
to feel hatred for the people, only with words.”
Michelle Wild (January 16, 1980 -
Sátoraljaújhely, Hungary) was a porn actress who worked mainly for Private
Media Group and "LUXX Video" (Hungary). His birth name is Katalin
Vad.
With Kovi she made films like "Brides & Bitches" and “The Sex Secrets of the Paparazzi”. She
also worked with prominent porn directors such as John Leslie (Crack Her Jack
1) and Rocco Siffredi (Animal Trainer # 5).
She won the best actress award at
the "Erotic Brussels Festival" in 2003. That same year Private
produced a sort of "semi-documentary" entitled "The Private Life of Michelle Wild."
The film presents excerpts from interviews with Michelle talking about her
desires, intermingled with selected scenes of her films.
She has become very popular in the
Hungarian media, where fans credited her exceptional intelligence and personality.
During his years in the porn industry, she has won numerous adult awards in Hungary.
She also had a regular column in the men's magazine FHM and co-presented a
"talk show" on a radio.
Since her retirement from the adult
business and the birth of her daughter, she has said, in several interviews in
Hungary, that she has completely changed and, although she does not deny her
past, she would not take the porn actress road again.
Awards:
- 2003 Venus Award winner - Best Actress (Hungary
- 2003 Barcelona International Erotic Film Festival Ninfa Award winner – Best Supporting Actress (Hot Rats)
- 2004 European X Award winner – Best Actress (Germany)
- 2004 AVN Award winner - Best Tease Performance (Crack Her Jack 1)