István Szabó

István Szabó was born in Budapest on 18 February 1938, into a family of doctors; his father died of diphtheria in the spring of 1945. He entered the Academy of Theatre and Film in 1956, left it in 1961 and became one of the figures of the new Hungarian cinema. In 1982 he received the Oscar for best foreign-language film. In 2006 an article revealed that he had informed for the political police from 1957; he first said he had wanted to save a classmate, then acknowledged that he was trying to avoid being expelled from school.

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• CinemaAge of IllusionsÁlmodozások koraIstván Szabó · 1965Cinema