István Szabó is bringing some “Sunshine” to Cannes Classics. His 1999 historical epic, starring Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, John Neville and Jennifer Ehle, followed generations of a Hungarian-Jewish ...

Classically trained musician Istvan Szabo understands why so many of his concert audiences confuse his instrument specialty, the viola, with a violin. “They do look similar and you do hold both ...

Though it's refreshing to see a prestige picture pass the Bechdel test with flying colors -- hell, this movie basically consists of two women talking about everything but men -- vet Magyar director ...

István Szabó, a professor of viola at Western Illinois University who hails from a musical family in Romana, will open the fall season of the LaVeck Concert series in Pulaski with a concert at 7 p.m.

film profile], his feature as a director. Also in the cast are Ildikó Tóth, Károly Eperjes, Erika Marozsán, Péter Andorai, Ferenc Kállai, Piroska Molnár, the Czech filmmaker Jirí Menzel and the ...

Mephisto, based on Klaus Mann's novel, tells of a brilliant Brechtian actor who makes a Faust-like pact with the Third Reich. In Colonel Redl (1985), based on John Osborne’s A Patriot for Me, a ...

Despite two Oscars, for István Szabó’s “Mephisto” (1981) and László Nemes’s “Son of Saul” (2015), Hungarian cinema remains largely unknown to most Americans. Russian, Polish, Czech and even Romanian ...