István Szabó
István Szabó [ ˈiʃtvaːn 'sɒboː ] (born February 18, 1938 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian film director . In 1982 his feature film Mephisto was awarded the Oscar in the category Best Foreign Language Film .
Life
István Szabó comes from a Jewish family who survived the Holocaust in hiding with friends.
After he was able to celebrate successes in Hungary in the 1960s and 1970s with previously unconventional films , he succeeded in laying the foundation for foreign financed films with the 1980 film Der Grüne Vogel with Hannelore Elsner in the leading role then made world famous. Mephisto in 1981 , Colonel Redl in 1985 and Hanussen in 1988 , each with Klaus Maria Brandauer in the lead role, made the director and leading actor internationally known. His films Trust , Colonel Redl , Hanussen were nominated for an Oscar in the category of best foreign language film , Mephisto won the award for Hungary in 1982 . For this film, István Szabó received the award for the best screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival in 1981 and the award for the best director for Hanussen .
Szabó also worked as an opera director, for example staging Tannhäuser at the Opéra de Paris (1985) or Il trovatore at the Vienna State Opera (1993). In March 2005, István Szabó was with the actor Otto Sander in the arte telecast Through the night with ... to see how they are immersed for two in the Budapest nightlife.
In 2006 András Gervai revealed in the magazine Élet és Irodalom ( Life and Literature ) that Szabó had written spy reports for the Hungarian communist secret police ÁVH as a student in the 1950s .
He was a founding member of the European Film Academy , founded in 1989 , and of the Széchenyi Academy of Letters and Arts in 1998 .
Szabó has taught at film academies in Budapest, London and Berlin. In the 2006 summer semester he gave a lecture at the Institute for Theater, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna . He is a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts .
In 30 years, Szabó made another film with Klaus Maria Brandauer for the first time. The final report (Zarojelentes) should come to the cinema in Hungary in spring 2020.
Filmography (selection)
- 1962: Concert (short film)
- 1964: time of reverie; also: Age of Daydreams (Álmodozások kora)
- 1967: father (Apa)
- 1970: A love film (Szerelmesfilm)
- 1972: Dream of a House (short film)
- 1973: Feuerwehrgasse 25 (Tüzoltó utca 25.)
- 1976: Budapest legend (Budapesti Mesék)
- 1977: City map ( Varosterkep , short film)
- 1980: Trust or a room with no exit (Bizalom)
- 1980: The green bird
- 1981: Mephisto
- 1983: cat game
- 1984: Bali
- 1985: Colonel Redl
- 1988: Hanussen (Profeta)
- 1991: The Magic of Venus (Meeting Venus)
- 1992: Sweet Emma, dear Böbe (Édes Emma, drága Böbe)
- 1996: Offenbach's secret
- 1999: a touch of sunshine
- 2001: Taking Sides - Der Fall Furtwängler (Taking Sides)
- 2004: Being Julia
- 2006: Rokonok
- 2012: Behind the Door (The Door)
- 2019: final report
Awards
- 1975: Kossuth Prize
- 1980: Silver Bear for best director for rooms without an exit
- 1996: honorary citizen of Budapest
- 1997: Corvinus Prize from the Budapest European Institute
- 2002: Commander with Star of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary
- 2008: Undine Award for the life's work of a young talent
- 2014: German Director Prize Metropolis for his life's work
Web links
- István Szabó in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about István Szabó in the catalog of the German National Library
- The Friends of the Nemesis: Open letter to Istvan Szabó about his film Taking Sides - the Furtwängler case
- http://www.wdr.de/tv/kulturweltspiegel/20060205/5.html
- https://orf.at/stories/3149092/ Szabó and Brandauer shot again after 30 years
Individual evidence
- ^ "History," European Film Academy , [1] , accessed June 22, 2017.
- ↑ “Széchenyi Academy of Letters and Arts,” Hungarian Academy of Sciences , archive link ( memento of the original from April 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 22, 2017.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Szabó, István |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian film director |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 18, 1938 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |