Istvan Szabo Movie Recommendations

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Let me know if you liked or hated a movie I recommended. - . Szabo's films tend to be long with wonderful characters. Focus of most his films seem to explore Hungarian aspects of Nazi or Communist regimes.

Sweeping history of Hungary as refracted through three generations of a Jewish-Hungarian family. Maurice Jarre's music recalls his score for Doctor Zhivago. Szabó emulates Lean's intimate-epic style of merging the sweep of history with the crystalline detailing of individual lives, so that the shape of destiny is glimpsed through personal moments. His lighting cameraman, Lajos Koltai, is one of the handful of cinematographers equal to capturing these moments in lapidary images--cinematic sunshine of the highest order. One generation focuses on pre-WW1, second on pre-WW2 and final on post WW2 communist Hungary. One of best movies I have ever seen.

Hungarian conductor(Niels Arestrup) travelling to Paris to oversee a production of Wagner's Tannhauser, where he encounters a tempremental diva of a lead singer (Glen Close) and a chorus more interested in making political points then singing.

Brandauer is magnetic as a vain, brilliant German actor who sells himself to gain prestige when the Nazis come to power.

Brandauer stars as an ambitious, homosexual career soldier rise to high military rank in the Austro-Hungarian Empire prior to WW1

Brandauer offers a compelling performance as a WW1 Austrian soldier who is shot in the head--and develops the ability to read minds and foretell the future. An intriguing, insightful, based-on-fact tale; third in a trilogy, following MEPHISTO and COLONEL REDL.