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István Szabó is one of Hungarys most celebrated and best-known film directors, and the only Hungarian to have won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, for Mephisto (1981). In a career spanning over five decades Szabó has relentlessly examined the place of the individual in European history, particularly those caught up in the turbulent events of Central Europe and his own native Hungary. His protagonists struggle to find a place for themselves, some meaning in their lives, security and a sense of being, against a background of two world wars (Colonel Redl, Confidence), the Holocaust (Sunshine), the Hungarian Uprising and the Cold War (Father, 25 Firemans Street, Taking Sides). This is the first English-language study of all his feature films and uses material from interviews with Szabó and his collaborators.
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John Cunningham is the author of Hungarian Cinema: From Coffee House to Multiplex (2005) and many other articles and essays on Eastern European and particularly Hungarian cinema. He is now retired, but most recently taught Film Studies at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.
Zusammenfassung
The first English-language study of all Szabó's feature films and uses material from interviews with him and his collaborators
Bericht
"The first book-length study in English of one of the world's greatest directors, The Cinema of István Szabó: Visions of Europe is a probing, much-needed contribution to film scholarship that will also appeal to readers interested in representations of Central European culture, profoundly marked by historical developments before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall." - Catherine Portuges, University of Massachusetts
