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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. Director: Sunshine. 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.
István Szabó is a Hungarian film director who won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film for Mephisto (1981). He also made English-language films with Klaus Maria Brandauer and Lajos Koltai, and was a former communist agent.
Dec 7, 2021 · A retrospective of the Hungarian director István Szabó’s films reflects the awareness of the life of a generation that has been constantly exposed to challenges.
Nov 30, 2020 · István Szabó • Director of Final Report. “If one would still like to be with others in the future, the cinema will remain” by David Katz. 30/11/2020 - Decorated Hungarian filmmaker István Szabó enlightens us about his melancholic and comic Final Report, which has just had its international premiere at Tallinn Black Nights.
Nov 26, 2020 · Interview: István Szabó • Director of Final Report “If one would still like to be with others in the future, the cinema will remain” Decorated Hungarian filmmaker István Szabó enlightens us about his melancholic and comic Final Report, which has just had its international premiere at Tallinn Black Nights . 30/11/2020
István Szabó is one of the few Hungarian filmmakers to have earned a major international reputation over the past half century. This thoughtful and original book is the first examination of Szabó's contribution to contemporary thought, engaging the troubled history of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries.
