István Szabó is one of the few Hungarian filmmakers to have
earned a major international reputation over the past half century.
His 1981 film, Mephisto, was the first film by a Hungarian director
to be awarded the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, and he has
directed more than 15 feature films, in Hungarian, German, and
English starring actors like Ralph Fiennes, Glenn Close, Annette
Benning and Helen Mirren, Yet Szabó’s importance as a filmmaker
lies not so much in his attention to film’s formal elements, but
for his deep and ongoing engagement with some of the most urgent
ethical and existential questions of our time. He is not a
philosopher in the technical sense of the word, but his films are
undoubtedly philosophical through the questions they ask. How do
individuals attempt, and often fail, to create a viable self and a
life in extreme historical situations over which they have no
control? This is probably the single most profound philosophical
question that haunts Szabó’s work, as indeed it does that of
many other Central European intellectuals and filmmakers of the
20th century.
General
| Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Academic
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Philosophical Filmmakers |
| Release date: |
2024 |
| Authors: |
Susan Rubin Suleiman
|
| Dimensions: |
216 x 138mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
224 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-350-18182-3 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-350-18182-X |
| Barcode: |
9781350181823 |
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