István Szabó
Film director
1938 –
Who is István Szabó?
István Szabó is a Hungarian film director, screenwriter, and opera director.
Szabó is the most internationally famous Hungarian filmmaker since the late 1960s. Working in the tradition of European auteurism, he has made films that represent many of the political and psychological conflicts of Central Europe’s recent history, as well as of his own personal history. He made his first short film in 1959 as a student at the Hungarian Academy of Theatrical and Cinematic Arts, and his first feature film in 1964. He achieved his greatest international success with Mephisto, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Since then, most of Szabó's films have been international co-productions filmed in a variety of languages and European locations. He has continued to make some films in Hungarian, however, and even in his international co-productions, he often films in Hungary and uses Hungarian talent. Szabó became involved in a national controversy in 2006 when the Hungarian newspaper Life and Literature revealed that he had been an informant of the Communist regime’s secret police.
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- Born
- Feb 18, 1938
Budapest - Also known as
- Istvan Szabo
- Szabó István Tamás
- Parents
- Spouses
- Vera Gyürey
(1961 - )
- Vera Gyürey
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- Hungary
- Profession
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on July 23, 2013
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