Direction: István Szabó

Direction István Szabó

Cast Klaus Maria Brandauer · Ildikó Bánsági · Rolf Hoppe · Krystyna Janda

Plot In MEPHISTO, an ambitious and talented actor (Klaus Maria Brandauer) on the verge of success marries the daughter of an important official in pre-World War II Germany in order to...

Direction István Szabó

Cast András Bálint · Miklós Gábor · Dániel Erdély · Kati Sólyom

Plot Ever since the death of his father, young Tako (Dani Erdélyi) has filled the paternal void with a series of fantasies in which his father (Miklós Gábor) is envisioned as...

Direction István Szabó

Cast Ralph Fiennes · Rosemary Harris · Rachel Weisz · Deborah Kara Unger

Plot The film follows a Jewish family living in Hungary through three generations, rising from humble beginnings to positions of wealth and power in the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire. The patriarch becomes...

Direction István Szabó

Cast Ildikó Bánsági · Péter Andorai · Oszkárné Gombik · Károly Csáki

Plot During WW2 Hungarian resistance hides a married couple from the officials. The woman is sent to act as the wife of one of the resistance members who is also in...

Direction István Szabó

Cast Harvey Keitel · Stellan Skarsgard · Moritz Bleibtreu · Birgit Minichmayr

Plot A tale based on the life of Wilhelm Furtwangler, the controversial conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic whose tenure coincided with the controversial Nazi era. One of the most spectacular and...

Direction István Szabó

Cast Klaus Maria Brandauer · Armin Mueller-Stahl · Jan Niklas · Hans Christian Blech

Plot Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl (Klaus Maria Brandauer), an ambitious young officer who proceeds up...

Direction István Szabó

Cast Annette Bening · Jeremy Irons · Shaun Evans · Michael Gambon

Plot London, year 1938. Concerned that her fading youth and beauty will being to affect her career, estranged from her only son and pretending to be ignorant of her husband's philandering,...

Direction István Szabó

Cast Johanna ter Steege · Enikö Börcsök · Péter Andorai · Éva Kerekes

Plot Edes Emma, draga Bobe is a low-budget, realist, almost documentary study of the dilemmas faced by two teachers following the fall of Communism.

Direction István Szabó

Cast Klaus Maria Brandauer · Erland Josephson · Ildikó Bánsági · Walter Schmidinger

Plot A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of empathy...

Direction Bernardo Bertolucci · Claire Denis · Mike Figgis · Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Valeria Bruni Tedeschi · Dominic West · Daniel Craig · Chiara Mastalli

Plot A companion film to the highly acclaimed TEN MINUTES OLDER: THE TRUMPET. Eight influential directors interpret the theme of time. Official selection of the Venice, Toronto and San Sebastian Film...

Direction István Szabó

Cast Helen Mirren · Martina Gedeck · Károly Eperjes · Gábor Koncz

Plot This is a story of a special relationship between two women, a writer and her maid.

Direction István Szabó

Cast Klaus Maria Brandauer · Károly Eperjes · András Stohl · Éva Kerekes

Plot A cardiologist is sent into retirement, but he feels at loss without his work. He returns to his home village to work as a general practitioner. This is the start...

Direction István Szabó

Cast Glenn Close · Niels Arestrup · Erland Josephson · Macha Méril

Plot A deliciously biting satire about both the world of Grand Opera and the current 'United Europe'. A Hungarian conductor (Arestrup) attempts to mount a bold new production of TANNHAUSER while...

Direction István Szabó

Cast György Kézdi · György Linka · Éva Tímár · Iván Verebély

Plot A young priest visits a barber's shop to get shaved. When he leans back and closes his eyes, the barbers decide to play a prank on him. Instead of a...

Direction István Szabó

Cast Sándor Csányi · Ildikó Tóth · Károly Eperjes · Erika Marozsán

Plot Young honest public official is sworn in after his predecessor had to leave due to a corruption scandal. Soon, the young idealist discovers just how far-reaching the corruption is in...

Direction István Szabó

Cast Ági Mészáros · Maja Komorowska · Franciszek Pieczka · András Bálint

Plot A group of people finds a broken down tram while trying to go to the city. The people band together and try to get the tram back on the train...

Direction István Szabó

Cast Judit Halász · András Bálint · Edit Kelemen · András Szamosfalvi

Plot Lovefilm is a film that is a cinematic imagery of the unspoken and untold aspects of love and hope between individuals. It depicts love between two childhood sweet hearts who...

Direction István Szabó

Direction István Szabó

Plot Student film from István Szabó when he was 22 years old.

Direction István Szabó

Cast Géza Berczy · Tamás Eröss · Klára Falvay · Katalin Gyöngyössy