István Szabó

Born February 18, 1938· Budapest, Hungary

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Emerging from a Budapest family whose patriarch was a physician, he entered the Academy of Drama and Film in the capital, where mentorship from Félix Máriássy and a prize-winning thesis short at Oberhausen launched his directing path. By 1964 he had already completed his first feature, joining a Hungarian new-wave that combined formal experimentation with psychological depth. International reco…