István Szabó Movies

"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...

The story shows Emma's and Böbe's fight for survival, for keeping their position in society which they achieved with hard work in the previous...

A young Jewish boy travels europe in search of the grave of his Great Grandfather who was killed by the Nazis in the War.

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

Young honest public official is sworn in after his predecessor had to leave due to a corruption scandal. Soon, the young idealist discovers just how...

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...

A short film directed by István Szabó.

This film of three parts recalls memories from World War II. The titles of the parts are: Impartially, Terrified and Like a scream.

Through the personal memories of István Szabó we can became the observers of the life of Budapest.

A documentary directed by Wolfgang Liemberger.