Istvan Szabo

Nationality:
Hungarian
Birthdate:
02/18/1938
Birthplace:
Budapest, Hungary
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biography
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 a film like "Colonel Redl" (1985) between the complex social atmosphere and political issues in the old imperial dynasty and the modern people's republic. His output perhaps reached a culmination in 1999 with the epic "Sunshine", which followed the rise and fall of a Jewish Hungarian family from the Continued
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Milestone
 
Born and raised in Budapest
1961 
First short film as director, the thesis film "Konzert/Concert"
 
Joined Bela Balazs Studio as assistant after graduation
 
Helmed the shorts "Variaciok egy temara/Variations Upon a Theme" (1961) and "Te/You" (1963)
1964 
First feature-length film, "Almodozasok Kora/The Age of Daydreaming"; film starred Andras Balint
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