István Szabó Movies

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

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

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

From the 1950s onwards, Erika and Ulrich Gregor brought countless film historical milestones to Berlin and shaped cinema discourse in post-war...

Daniel, an arrogant, restless young Londoner is bored with his meaningless life. He seeks sympathy from his old Jewish grandmother, who sends him on...

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...

When young Tako's father dies in Hungary in 1945, Tako is left with scant memories of him. Nurtured by his mother, the boy fantasizes about the man...

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

A cardiologist is sent into retirement, but he feels at loss without his work. He returns to his home village to work as a general practitioner. This...

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

From a policewoman broken leg seems completely slip out of the soil. Life-threatening love triangle mixed with her husband and their criminal friends.

The love story between a German cancer researcher and her Polish colleague that drags on for more than ten years. Both are married, which rules out...

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...

"Budapest Tales" is about a group of people (consisting of Szabo regular Andras Balint along with Ildiko Bansagi and Karoly Kovacs) who find a broken...

A documentary directed by Wolfgang Liemberger.

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...

Erzsi, living alone in Budapest, keeps up phone and letter contact with her sister Gisa in Germany. Both elderly, they’ve long grown apart in...