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	Istvan Szabo's Century of "Sunshine" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Istvan Szabo: I finished film school, like everybody who was working in the film business in Hungary, and then I became an assistant director and worked with several different directors.
		Szabo: I think I did several feature films that may be the roots for "Sunshine." For the personal view, "Father" [1966], for the political subject, "Mephisto" [1981] and "Colonel Redl" [1985], and for the love story, "Confidence" [1979].
		Szabo: I think the background -- and the visual effect as you mention -- is an important part of the story and the family story is how to be in a society, how to be accepted by a society, how to assimilate.
	www.indiewire.com /people/int_Szabo_Istvan_000612.html (1315 words)

	Mr. István Szábo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		István Szábo, violin and viola, is a graduate of the University of Illinois(MM), and of the George Dima Academy of Music in Cluj, Romania with a double major in viola pedagogy and performance.
		Szabo was the violist of the Bartha String Quartet, which toured extensively throughout Europe, and won several chamber music awards including first prize in the “George Dima” International Chamber Music Competition.
		Szabo is working on his DMA at the University of Illinois.
	www.eiu.edu /~music/faculty/szabo.html (144 words)

	About the production (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Szabo forged a fictitious Hungarian family that is at once brilliant, ambitious and cursed – caught up in a cycle of fear and conformity that belies their every success.
		Szabo, who remains the anomalous director in today’s Hollywood who is excited not only by action but by ideas, also wanted to explore the notion that the twentieth century’s numerous idealistic political movements each began optimistically but all led to the same place: corruption and human destruction.
		From the beginning, Istvan Szabo knew the key to bringing his epic to life would be in casting actors who could jump into the torrents of history and still be utterly believable.
	www.paramountclassics.com /sunshine/production.html (2042 words)

	Istvan Szabo Biography @ Filmbug
		Istvan Szabo directs his most epic and romantic film to date with SUNSHINE, a chronicle of the 20th century told through the tales of a remarkable family's lives and loves.
		Szabo has won over 60 major international awards, including the 1981 Academy Award for Mephisto, three additional Academy nominations, a British Academy Award, the David de Donatello Award, four awards from the prestigious Cannes International Film Festival and twice winning the Silver Bear of Berlin.
		Szabo is firmly established as one of the most distinguished and influential filmmakers of his generation and is also renown for writing almost all his own screenplays.
	www.filmbug.com /db/34970-9 (561 words)

	Istvan Szabo Interview with Marty Fairbairn
		Academy Award-winning director Istvan Szabo's _Taking Sides_ (2001) finds the Hungarian Filmmaker returning to previously explored themes such as personal responsibility and the impossibility of remaining neutral during wartime.
		The film follows the post-World War II interrogation of Wilhelm Furtwangler (Stellan Skarsgard), renowned symphony conductor of the 1930's, whose position as musical director of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra during the war brought him into rather uncomfortably close proximity to the Nazi regime.
		Istvan Szabo and Marty Fairbairn, 'Art, Politics, and _Taking Sides_: An Interview with Istvan Szabo', _Film-Philosophy_, vol.
	www.film-philosophy.com /vol6-2002/n19szabo-fairbairn (1331 words)

	Bates College \| Istvan Szabo
		Szabo related a story of how on one occasion he did compromise the truth of his art for what he thought was a greater good, and he has regretted it ever since.
		Szabo was in Toronto working on the post-production of Being Julia, starring Annette Benning and Jeremy Irons.
		Istvan Szabo is a visionary director and person and gave me insight on several questions.
	www.bates.edu /istvan-szabo.xml (426 words)

	OFFOFFOFF film review TAKING SIDES movie by István Szabó with Stellan Skarsgard, Harvey Keitel, Moritz Bleibtreu, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This film collaboration between Oscar winners Ronald Harwood ("The Pianist," 2002) and Oscar-winning director Istvan Szabo ("Sunshine," 1999), posits the theory that one person's musical genius orchestra conductor is merely Hitler's "bandleader" to someone else.
		Szabo returns again to the question of the responsibility of the artist and/or the ordinary citizen against the Barbarian hordes that has haunted several of his excellent films, including "Mephisto" (1981), "Hanussen" (1988) and "Sunshine" (1999).
		Szabo's epic "Sunshine" highlighted several generations of a single Hungarian Jewish family's continual battle against anti-Semitism, the barbarians being first the Nazis and then the communists, each of whom invaded his Hungarian homeland at different times.
	www.offoffoff.com /film/2003/takingsides.php (832 words)

	Hungarian Directors - Istvan Szabo
		The setting is an old house on the eve of its demolition; during a hot summer night, the numerous inhabitants indulge in dreams and recollections of the events of the past thirty years.
		Istvan Szabo's brilliant historic epic of intrigue, continuing his concern with responsibility and guilt established with his Mephisto.
		Istvan Szabo's powerful, Academy-Award winner (Best Foreign Language Film) stars Klaus Maria Brandauer as an actor in pre-war Germany whose quest for success leads him to subordinate everything--political conviction, human relationships, artistic ambition.
	www.multilingualbooks.com /tlstore/foreignvids-hung-szabo.html (725 words)

	Amazon.com: Colonel Redl (1985): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		"Colonel Redl" is the middle film of Istvan Szabo's "trilogy of betrayal and political murder" that he made with the actor Klaus Maria Brandauer in the 1980's.
		Szabo, more than any other filmmaker I can think of, understands how ideology and the lust for power destroyed so many ordinary lives in the 20th century.
		The second in Istvan Szabo's loosely-linked trilogy that began with the brilliant Mephisto, and ended with the weaker Hanussen, Colonel Redl should become one of the classics of cinema.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005ASOG?v=glance (2120 words)

	Amazon.com: Mephisto (1982): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Hungarian director Istvan Szabo's tale of Klaus Maria Brandauer as an actor in Nazi Germany reminded me of the problem posed by Burt Lancaster in Judgment at Nuremburg.
		However Szabo doesn't demonize the character, which may have something to do with Szabo continuing to make movies in Hungary after the Russians invaded, as evidence of the adjustment of the working artist.
		Szabo gets a laugh from a montage of Brandaeur's entrances in various theatre roles, after he closes a curtain from an argument, and Brandaeur himself gets us on side with his first appearance howling in a jealous tantrum backstage.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005ASOE?v=glance (1906 words)

	Istvan Szabo
		, Anna Kethly, Zolton Tildy, Bela Kovacs, Geza Lodonczy, Gyula Keleman, Joseph Fischer, Istvan Bibo and Ferenc Farkas.
		On 4th November 1956 Nikita Khrushchev sent the Red Army into Hungary and Nagy's government was overthrown.
		Szabo was arrested and remained in prison until 1959.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /COLDszabo.htm (335 words)

	HANUSSEN - Average Istvan Szabo Drama Foreign War 1988 - R
		HANUSSEN - Average Istvan Szabo Drama Foreign War 1988 - R
		HANUSSEN was the last film in Istvan Szabo's trilogy that also
		His charismatic personality and his psychic predictions make him a celebrity with the Nazis, until he begins to foresee more than the German powers would like him to.
	www.movies2go.net /review/Hanussen.html (66 words)

	Istvan Szabo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
		The Central European experience, from the Austro-Hungarian Empire to the Warsaw Pact, is key to the content of Istvan Szabo's films as well as their symbolic structure.
		There may even be an implied metaphor in a film like "Colonel Redl" (1985) between the complex social atmosphere and political issues in the old imperial dynasty and the modern people's republic.
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/detail/celeb/1118424 (401 words)

	Hanussen
		As well as collecting obscure, forgotten, and unreleased films, he also curates the "Eat My Schlock" Bad Taste Short Film Festival, fronts a cowpunk caberet combo, co-runs the Turkeyneck Records label, churns out lurid posters and record covers for bands around the country, and is a filmmaker.
		Hungarian director Istvan Szabó’s film Hanussen, is riddled with such moments, a beautifully shot and brilliantly executed portrait of mounting doom as Germany succumbs to the eerie prophecies of Austro-Hungary’s most famous clairvoyant.
		And despite the fatalism and inevitability of Hanussen’s predictions, his state of grace at the end gives the film a sense of hope for the plight of the individual, and that’s where Szabo’s unmuddied vision squarely rests.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/cteq/05/36/hanussen.html (626 words)

	SUNSHINE; Ralph Fiennes, CinemaSense.Com Review.
		An epic exploration of one family’s lost identity is a haunting and challenging film that takes on a little more than it can handle.
		From the renowned Hungarian director Istvan Szabo comes this epic tale of four generations of Sonnenscheins (literally meaning sunshine), a Hungarian Jewish family, and their experiences of the interpersonal and societal upheavals spanning the Twentieth Century.
		We applaud Istvan Szabo as the director and writer for the nuanced weaving of visual, verbal, and action metaphors.
	www.cinemasense.com /Reviews/sunshine.htm (943 words)

	Amazon.ca: Video: Meeting Venus [IMPORT] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The first "foreign" language film I ever saw was Istvan Szabo's Mephisto, which was a riveting and original film that has stayed with me for a long time.
		I haven't had the chance to revisit that great film, so I rented this one, which is Szabo's first English language film.
		I don't know much about opera, but I think its safe to guess that the details of the production portrayed in this film are not meant to be accurate, but rather Szabo uses the opera as a microsome for the cultural and artistic differences between citizens of the post Iron Curtain Europe.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004RLNV (1141 words)

	CONFIDENCE - Good Istvan Szabo Drama War Foreign 1980 - PG-13
		CONFIDENCE - Good Istvan Szabo Drama War Foreign 1980 - PG-13
		The Underground; World War II; Adultery; Love Affairs;
		After he husbands goes underground during the Nazi occupation of Hungary, Kata (Ildiko Bansagi) must protect herself by posing as the wife of another man, Janos (Peter Andorai).
	www.movies2go.net /review/Confidence.html (47 words)

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