István Szabó

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István Szabó (2004)

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 during an interview on Magyar Televízió 1987
István Szabó (left) as jury president at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival 2013

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)

Awards

Web links

Commons : István Szabó  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "History," European Film Academy , [1] , accessed June 22, 2017.
  2. ↑ “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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mta.hu
personal data
SURNAME Szabó, István
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian film director
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest