Name: Lovefilm
Director: István Szabó
Released: 1970
Cast: Edit Kelemen, András Szamosfalvi, Rita Békés, Judit Halász, András Bálint

Edit Kelemen

András Szamosfalvi

Rita Békés

Judit Halász

András Bálint

Jancsi reminiscences about Kata his childhood friend in WWII Budapest, They are separated as a result of 1956 revolution. Reunited as adults, they struggle with whether they will stay in each others lives.

Lovefilm

Szerelmesfilm

french

english

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István Géczy

Tünde Kassai

Emil Keres

Béla Horváth

Éva Tímár

Dóri Patz

A French-like burlesque about the adventures of a young boy in the first grade of elementary school. He gets acquainted with time, then, accompanied by his father, leaves home to spend his first day at school. On the way there, he meets Zizi, and they become friends. Mischief interests him more than learning to write, but he is not alone by this inclination. His imagination colours reality around him. He is cured from a major disease, makes adventures in social life, learns to know the adult world. He imagines his uncle, whom he does not love and whom he continuously escapes, to be set in prison. A baby is born in the family, and it is much bigger happiness than his excellent marks, only Zizi needs to be comforted because she failed in a subject. But there is no problem because he makes a promise to marry her. When he grows up.

New Wave

National Film Institute Hungary – Film Archive

Hidden Treasures

Home

Grimace

Gyerekbetegségek

Deutsch

Ilona Béres

Katalin Sólyom

Cecília Esztergályos

Béla Asztalos

Jancsi and his engineering graduate friends set off into postuniversity life with high hopes. The first blow comes when the 
company they find jobs with places them in different departments 
on different salaries. Initially, they all meet up, some come up with 
big schemes that they start working on together but gradually 
the group begins to crumble. Istv&aacute;n Szab&oacute;&rsquo;s debut film is a 
story inspired by personal experience that captures his own 
generation&rsquo;s dreams, desires and search for a way forward.

István Szabó

The Age of Daydreaming

Álmodozások kora

Zsuzsa Rátonyi

Klári Tolnay

Miklós Gábor

Daniel Erdélyi

In this, the second of the three films often called the &lsquo;generational 
trilogy&rsquo; (The Age of Daydreaming, Father, Love Film), we trace the 
coming of age tribulations of a boy left without a father. The young 
hero evokes and embellishes memories of his father who died in 
1945. The first three films by Istv&aacute;n Szab&oacute; are based on his own 
experiences as a child and youth, yet they have resonance for an 
entire generation, showing what it was like to grow up without a 
father in the 1940s and 50s.

Father

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Edit Lenkey

Erzsi Pásztor

Margit Makay

Lucyna Winnicka

Károly Kovács

Memories and desires of the residents of a Pest apartment block condemned to be demolished swirl through this film by Istv&aacute;n Szab&oacute;. For the director in his thirties, the 1970s was the age of discovery; this work is an experiment at adapting the Modernist stream of conscious film genre for a Hungarian audience. The struggle of the individual against history is a recurring Szab&oacute; theme, which in this movie he takes closest to the limits of the narrative form.

25 Fireman's Street

Tűzoltó utca 25. – álmok a házról

Franciszek Pieczka

Ági Mészáros

 Ildikó Bánsági

Maja Komorowska

From the very beginning of his career, Istv&aacute;n Szab&oacute;, Oscarwinning director of Mephisto, was fascinated with the birth of communities and the dynamic of human relations. His first short film, Koncert (Concert), provides clear evidence of this, and in fact the dramaturgical concept found in this was extended into a feature film, Budapest Tales. But whereas there a piano opens a channel between man and man, and creates a community, this time it is an abandoned tram carriage that assists the actors to the same end.

Budapest Tales

Budapesti mesék

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Ildikó Bánsági

Péter Andorai

Oszkárné Gombik

Károly Csáki

Ildikó Kishonti

Lajos Balázsovits

During WW2 Hungarian resistance hides a married couple from the officials. The woman is sent to act as the wife of one of the resistance members who is also in hiding and pretending to be somebody else. They slowly begin to fall in love.

Bizalom

Hungarian

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Klaus Maria Brandauer

Hans Christian Blech

Gudrun Landgrebe

Jan Niklas

Armin Mueller-Stahl

Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl, an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become head of the Secret Police only to become ensnared in political deception.

Colonel Redl

Oberst Redl

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Français

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This region for an airman is just a map&#x27;, however, whosoever looks closer will discover a thousand secrets of a thousand lives on each Budapest corner or balcony. Memories of peacetime afternoons, family photos, love letters, then bombed houses, tanks driving down deserted streets and decrepit buildings awaiting demolition all flash up for a moment in this lyrical etude by Istv&aacute;n Szab&oacute;, not the first work in his series of filmmaking confessions for Budapest. The story of a city that preserves its past in its buildings and its inhabitants won the grand prix at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen in 1977.

Várostérkép – Budapest

Krystyna Janda

Rolf Hoppe

György Cserhalmi

In early-1930s Germany, a passionate stage actor faces a dilemma: renounce his apolitical stance and comply with the Reich&#x27;s doctrine, or face oblivion. But, Faustian bargains never end well. What is the price of success?

New German Cinema 1970-1980

Mephisto

Istv&aacute;n Szab&oacute; reveals a lesser-known side to the public in this work, which strings together eight shorts &ndash; including A t&eacute;r&nbsp;(A Square) &ndash; of Budapest into a single movie. In the piece interpretable as a declaration of love addressed to the capital there are numerous motifs that are also to be found woven through the director&rsquo;s major features, first and foremost&nbsp;Szerelmesfilm (Love Film), Tűzolt&oacute; utca 25.&nbsp;(25 Fireman&rsquo;s Street) and Budapesti mes&eacute;k&nbsp;(Budapest Tales). Besides allowing the viewer to marvel at the cityscape from 50 years ago in a series of fast-moving images, the film is still primarily about Szab&oacute;&rsquo;s Budapest : his observations, his impressions, his imagination.

Budapest, Why I Love It

Budapest, amiért szeretem

Walter Schmidinger

Erland Josephson

Grażyna Szapołowska

Károly Eperjes

Based on a true story, Istvan Szabo&#x27;s Hanussen centers on an Austrian soldier (Klaus Maria Brandauer) who becomes clairvoyant after he is shot in the head during World War I. He is able to read minds and predict the future. Before long, he has foreseen Hitler and the Nazis&#x27; rise to power, and he soon finds himself in danger.

Hanussen

Johanna Ter Steege

Irma Patkós

Éva Kerekes

Enikő Börcsök

1989, Budapest: Emma and B&ouml;be are Russian teachers living in a hostel and seeking their place in a rapidly evolving world. They don&rsquo;t have, nor could they have, great expectations, yet even so it is not sure they will make it home.&nbsp;Through this film Istv&aacute;n Szab&oacute; created his own report card on the change of regime. It paints a bitter yet pinpoint accurate picture of the transformation of values and the increasingly prevalent uncertainties concerning the future.&nbsp;

Sweet Emma, Dear Böbe

Édes Emma, drága Böbe - vázlatok, aktok

Variations Upon a Theme is nothing less than an attempt to summon up HISTORY &ndash; in block capitals &ndash; using constructivist imagery. Sequences cut from archive footage shot in museums and caf&eacute;s, compiled &ldquo;objectively&rdquo;, &ldquo;in astonishment&rdquo;, &ldquo;as a scream&rdquo;, are a warning that, just like the films of the great Central Europe trilogy, by the time a person realizes where they live, historical processes are already irreversible.

Variations upon a theme

Variációk egy témára

The subtitle of You is &lsquo;love film&rsquo;, which later became the title of the feature film debuting in 1970. The short film is in many ways the forerunner of the feature. The young and radiant Cec&iacute;lia Eszterg&aacute;lyos stars in the work evoking the French New Wave style. Every detail in this etude of fragmented structure bears great significance. The evanescence of any given minute is important here, the impressions that moments stacked one on top of another leave in the viewer

Katalin Gyöngyössy

Tamás Eröss

Klára Falvay

Lajos Cs. Németh

Géza Berczy

Many consider that Istv&aacute;n Szab&oacute;&rsquo;s oeuvre is in fact virtually a single, connected oeuvre-film. His first exam film etude, made in BBS and attracting considerable attention, was Concert set &ldquo;on the lower embankment of the wharf&rdquo;. It is about people gathering around an abandoned piano, who try to play and then protect the instrument. They grow in number because they become entranced by the music of Tiham&eacute;r Vujicsics. The film shows, symbolically, the power of art to create a community, as a single person becomes many. These motifs regularly appear in the closing sequences and metaphors of his films.

Concert

Koncert

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Pierre Repp

Jacques Perrin

Jean Marais

Delphine Seyrig

Fernand Ledoux

Micheline Presle

Sacha Pitoëff

Henri Crémieux

Patrick Préjean

 Coluche

Gabriel Jabbour

Louise Chevalier

Annie Savarin

Romain Bouteille

Bernard Musson

Georges Adet

Catherine Deneuve

Agnès Varda filme le tournage de Peau d'Âne

Ciné-Tamaris

Agnès Jaoui

Virginie Efira

"Die Eselshaut" in 3 Minuten

Blow up - ARTE

Catherine Deneuve: eine gewisse Vorstellung der Schönheit des Films

Catherine Deneuve évoque ses débuts, notamment avec Jacques Demy

Catherine Deneuve à l'aventure ou une certaine blondeur

Jean Marais évoque son rapport aux cinéastes

Cinéma Cinémas

Agnès Varda et Jacques Demy à propos du bonheur

Démons et merveilles du cinéma

C'était quoi Delphine Seyrig ?

C'était quoi Jacques Demy ?

Peau d’âne en 6 minutes

Catherine Deneuve en génériques

Catherine Deneuve à l'aventure ou une certaine blondeur 18/09/1978 : Catherine Deneuve évoque ses début et notamment avec Jacques Demy

Cinéma Cinémas 25/01/1988 : Jean Marais évoque son rapport aux cinéastes

Sur le tournage de Peau d'Âne

C'était quoi Delphine Seyrig ? - Blow Up - ARTE

Blow up - ARTE : C'était quoi Jacques Demy ?

A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise herself so she won&rsquo;t have to marry a man she doesn&rsquo;t love.

Donkey Skin

french - SME

German

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Barbara Loden

Dorothy Shupenes

Jerome Thier

Marian Thier

M.L. Kennedy

Anthony Rotell

Michael Higgins

Kazan Barbara Loden

Cinéma Cinémas 01/12/1984 : Kazan Barbara Loden

Wanda, a lonely housewife, drifts through mining country until she meets a petty thief who takes her in.

American Independent Cinema 1978-1990

Wanda

English

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Jack Nicholson

Karen Black

Fannie Flagg

Billy Green Bush

Sally Struthers

Lois Smith

William Challee

Susan Anspach

Rafelson toujours deux fois

C'est quoi Jack Nicholson ?

Blow up – ARTE

Cinéma Cinémas 17/03/1987 : Rafelson toujours deux fois

BLOW UP - Arte : C'est quoi Jack Nicholson ?

Although a brilliant, classical pianist from an intellectual, well-to-do family, Robert Dupea (Nicholson), has made a career out of running from job to job and woman to woman. Presently working in an oil field, Dupea spends most of his free time downing beers, playing poker and being noncommittal with his sexy but witless girlfriendRayette (Karen Black). But when he is summoned to his father&#x27;s deathbed, Dupea returns home with Rayette, where he meets and falls for a sophisticated woman (Susan Anspach). Now caught between his conflicting lifestyles, the gifted but troubled Dupea must face issues that will change his life forever.

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