István Szabó: Collected Works (3 films) (1981-1988)
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Second Run - 26 novembre 2025
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Audio : Hungarian
Sous-titres : English
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Format : Blu-ray Limited Edition / import UK
Zone : Region free
Genre : Drame
Synopsis
Mephisto (1981)
István Szabó’s Oscar-winning adaptation of Klaus Mann’s novel paints a portrait of Hendrik Höfgen (Klaus Maria Brandauer), a passionate but struggling actor who, despite his political ambivalence, remains in Germany as the Nazis come to power. When he accepts a Nazi official’s offer to make him a star, Höfgen finally receives the success and adulation he has long sought – but at what price?
Colonel Redl (1985)
Set in the years leading up to WW1, and inspired by John Osbourne’s controversial 1965 play A Patriot for Me, Szabó’s film charts the rise of the brilliant but unscrupulous Alfréd Redl in the Austro-Hungarian military. Compromised by his secret homosexuality, Redl is manipulated into a series of treasonous betrayals, becoming a prisoner of his own deceptions.
Hanussen (1988)
Wounded during WW1, an Austrian soldier claims he has gained the power to foresee the future. Adopting the name Erik Jan Hanussen, he sets himself up as a hypnotist, astrologer and clairvoyant in a Berlin theatre, ingratiating himself with those in power.