Istvan Szabo
Biography
Born 02/18/1938
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 key to the content of his films as well as their symbolic structure. There may even be an implied metaphor in...
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Awards
- In 1999, received European Film Award for European Screenwriters
- In 1992, received Felix for Best Screenplay
- In 1985, received Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize
Highlights
- In 2004, Directed Annette Bening in "Being Julia" based on the W. Somerset Maugham novel
- In 2001, Directed Stellan Skarsgård in "Taking Sides," a tale based on the life of Wilhelm Furtwangler, the controversial conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic
- In 1999, Received widespread acclaim for the English-language "Sunshine/A Taste of Sunshine"; screened at Toronto Film Festival
Family & Companions
- father: Jewish; converted to Catholicism in 1944; died soon after WWII of heart failure
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