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István Szabó (Hungarian: [ˈsɒboː ˈiʃtvaːn]; born 18 February 1938) is a Hungarian film director, screenwriter, and opera director. Szabó is one of the most notable Hungarian filmmakers and one who has been best known outside the Hungarian-speaking world since the late 1960s.
István Szabó was the first director to bring home to Hungary the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. The movie receiving the award was his 1981 film Mephisto. In January 2006, it became public that he had been an agent of the III/III department, a former communist agency of interior intelligence.
Istvan Szabo is one of the most critically acclaimed Hungarian film directors of the past few decades. In the 1960s and '70s he directed auteur films in Hungarian, which explore his own generation's experiences and recent Hungarian history (Apa (1966); Szerelmesfilm (1970); Tuzoltó utca 25. (1973)).
Nov 30, 2020 · We were delighted to speak to Academy Award-winning director István Szabó about his new film, Final Report [+ see also: film review trailer interview: István Szabó film profile], which showed late last week at the just-concluded Tallinn Black Nights.
Dec 7, 2021 · THIS is a seemingly playful dialogue between Éva and Jancsi, a young lawyer and an engineer about eating snow when they were thirsty. Éva and Jancsi are the main characters in The Age of...
Istvan Szabo has emerged as one of the most important Hungarian filmmakers of the 20th Century. The Central European experience, from the Austro-Hungarian Empire to the Warsaw Pact, is the...
1. Mephisto (1981) Unrated | 146 min | Drama. 7.7. Rate. In early-1930s Germany, a passionate stage actor faces a dilemma: renounce his apolitical stance and comply with the Reich's doctrine, or face oblivion. But, Faustian bargains never end well. What is the price of success?
