A period drama from 1981 about Nazi-era Germany speaks to our times, and that is both a testament to its brilliance and a sad statement. Hungarian director Istvan Szabo’s study of the tricky ...

István Szabó, Academy Award-winning director of the 1981 film Mephisto, comes to Bates College to give a lecture titled Close-up: The Art of Film at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 24, in the Keck Classroom (G52) ...

Hungarian director Istvan Szabo’s Mephisto (1981) is one of the definitive accounts of the links between art and politics. The movie is set in Nazi-era Germany and traces the rise of an actor and ...

Despite two Oscars, for István Szabó’s “Mephisto” (1981) and László Nemes’s “Son of Saul” (2015), Hungarian cinema remains largely unknown to most Americans. Russian, Polish, Czech and even Romanian ...

The best reason to see István Szabó's 1981 Oscar winner for best foreign film is still Klaus Maria Brandauer. The place is Germany. The time is the 1930s, on the cusp of the Nazis' rise to power.

The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival has announced that Hungarian filmmaker István Szabó (the Oscar-winning “Mephisto,” “Being Julia”) will serve as the head of the international jury at this ...