István Szabó Movies

The story shows Emma's and Böbe's fight for survival, for keeping their position in society which they achieved with hard work in the previous...

A story of two young people in Hungary, Jancsi and Kata. First they are good friends, later lovers. Soon after the 1956 Revolution Kata leaves...

István Szabó and Klaus Maria Brandauer talk about cinema, the repercussions of World War II, art and their films Mephisto (1981) and...

Jancsi is part of a closely knit gang of young engineers. They see the older engineers as mediocre, and have grand ideas about developing new...

A playful portrait of a young woman who merrily roams the streets of Budapest. A New Wave love letter in motion.

In a border town two sons of the local commander using stolen arms take hostages of eighteen girls in a dormitory, because they want to go West by...

The film depicts the period between 1945-60 through the life of a communist couple. Barna Judit, just released from a concentration camp and...

On one hot summer night, the residents of a Hungarian apartment house slated for demolition restlessly revisit their haunted pasts as they face an...

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...

A short film directed by István Szabó.

Through the personal memories of István Szabó we can became the observers of the life of Budapest.

Koncert is a 1962 Hungarian short film directed by István Szabó. In the film, several beach-goers have a go at playing creating an...

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...

This film of three parts recalls memories from World War II. The titles of the parts are: Impartially, Terrified and Like a scream.

István Szabó reveals a lesser-known side to the public in this work, which strings together eight shorts of Budapest into a single...

A documentary directed by Wolfgang Liemberger.