István Szabó

István Szabó [ iʃtva ː n ' sɒbo ː ] ( born February 18, 1938 in Budapest) is a Hungarian film director.

Life

István Szabó comes from a Jewish family who survived the Holocaust hiding with friends.

After he was able to celebrate with hitherto unconventional films successes in Hungary in the 1960s and 1970s, he succeeded, with the 1980 film produced to put the green bird with Hannelore Elsner in the lead role the foundation for foreign- funded films that made him then made ​​world famous.

1981 Mephisto, Colonel Redl 1985 and 1988 Hanussen, each with Klaus Maria Brandauer in the lead role, made ​​internationally known director and star. His films confidence, Colonel Redl, Hanussen were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, 1982 Mephisto won the award for Hungary. István Szabó received for this film and at the film festival in Cannes 1981 prize for best screenplay and for Hanussen the award for best director.

Szabó has also worked as an opera director, he staged about Tannhäuser at the Opéra de Paris ( 1985) Il trovatore or at the Vienna State Opera (1993).

In March 2005, István Szabó with the actor Otto Sander Through the Night with ... to see in the arte broadcast, as they immerse themselves in pairs in the Budapest nightlife.

In 2006 András Gervai revealed in the journal Élet és Irodalom (Life and Literature ) that Szabó had written as a student in the 50s for the Hungarian communist secret police ÁVH spy reports.

In the summer semester 2006 Szabó gave a lecture at the Institute of Theatre, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna.

Filmography

Awards

• Pushkin Medal