Laszlo SzaboFilmography

Ne Quittez Pas!

Actors: Sergio Castellitto, Michel Serrault, Isabelle Gélinas, Rachida Brakni, Dominique Pinon

En Jouant 'Dans la Compagnie des Hommes'

Actors: Sami Bouajila, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Vladimir Yordanoff, Laszlo Szabo, Anna Mouglalis

On Appelle Ca... Le Printemps

Actors: Marilyne Canto, Marie Matheron, Bernard Ballet, Pierre Berriau

Synopsis: Infidelity makes for strange bedfellows in this spicy comedy from France. Fanfan (Maryse Cupaiolo) and Joss (Marie Matheron) are two close friends who are unhappy in their marriages; Fanfan decides to leave her husband, and having become attracted to Joss, decides to stop by and give her the news Read More

Esther Kahn

Actors: Summer Phoenix, Ian Holm, Fabrice Desplechin, Frances Barber, Laszlo Szabo

Synopsis: The English-language debut of French director Arnaud Desplechin, Esther Kahn charts the ascension of a lower-class Jewish girl from a turn-of-the-century London ghetto to one of the stage's leading actresses. Esther (Summer Phoenix) feels set apart from her large, raucous family, who are all Read More

A Tekerolantos Naploja

Actors: Brad Dourif, Kathleen Gati, William Hickey, Wallace Shawn, Meat Loaf

Synopsis: Several noted American actors dot this autobiographical feature from Hungarian filmmaker Gabe Von Dettre (also know as Gabor Dettre) about the difficulty of getting a break in the movie industry. Brad Dourif plays a filmmaker who often talks to the audience about the main question on his mind Read More

La Sentinelle

Actors: Emmanuel Salinger, Thibault de Montalembert, Jean-Louis Richard, Marianne Denicourt

Synopsis: After spending some time with his diplomat father in Germany, a young French medical student returns by train to Paris to resume his studies. He is puzzled by the harsh treatment he receives from customs at the border but doesn't begin to understand why until he gets home and discovers a mummified Read More

Place Vendôme

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Emmanuelle Seigner, Jacques Dutronc, Bernard Fresson

Synopsis: Nicole Garcia directed this French suspense thriller set in the posh Paris square of Place Vendôme, where the jewelers district includes the firm run by Vincent Malivert (Bernard Fresson) with his brother, Eric (François Berléand). Although Vincent has a top reputation in the field, his British Read More

The Son of Gascogne

Actors: Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Grégoire Colin, Dinara Drukarova, Pascal Bonitzer

Synopsis: This gentle French comedy has a meandering plotline as it traces the exploits of a young man recognized as a the son of a star. The main protagonist is 23-year old Harvey who works as the guide for a group of Georgian singers who have a Paris gig. He is interested in Dinara, the 18-year old Read More

Haut Bas Fragile

Actors: Marianne Denicourt, Nathalie Richard, Laurence Côte, André Marcon

Synopsis: Three modern Parisian women form the basis of this epic musical comedy from famed director Jacques Rivette. The story is set in summer and follows the predestined path of each woman. Louise has just awoken from a five year coma and has been released from the hospital. She moves to a hotel where Read More

L'Eau Froide

Actors: Virginie Ledoyen, Cyprien Fouquet, Laszlo Szabo, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Dominique Faysse

Synopsis: Written and directed by French filmmaker Olivier Assayas, L'Eau Froide is a romantic drama about young, rebellious love in 1972 Paris. Christine (Virginie Ledoyen) and Gilles (Cyprien Fouquet) are 16-year-old lovers who have become frustrated with the aloofness of their families and the general Read More

Grand Bonheur

Actors: Bernard Ballet, Lucas Belvaux, Pierre Berriau, Nathalie Richard, Marilyne Canto

Synopsis: This affectionate little drama captures the last summer before graduation, when these assorted film students and drama students must leave the protected world of college and venture out into the chaotic currents of everyday life. All of them are working together to prepare a revue which spoofs and Read More

Les Enfants Jouent à la Russie

Actors: Jean-Luc Godard

Synopsis: This documentary from esteemed filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard is a collage of film clips from some of Russia's greatest directors ranging from Eisenstein to Tarkovsky. Also included are actors, including Godard, who plays Dostoyevsky's Idiot, reciting scenes from Chekhov, and from Russian literature. Read More

Rome Romeo

Actors: John Hargreaves, Yann Collette, Laszlo Szabo

Te Meg Elsz?

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: This single-focus documentary allows Bela Kemenfyi to tell the story of his astonishing survival. Shot by Russian soldiers in 1944 when he was fifteen, he was left to die. When, though critically wounded, he simply didn't, die, he was taken to a gulag (prison/work camp) where he spent the next Read More

Pleure Pas My Love

Actors: Fanny Ardant, Jean-Pierre Sentier, Remi Martin, Laszlo Szabo

Synopsis: Writer/director Tony Gatlif tells an offbeat tale about a romance between two people living on the fringes of the film world who have difficulty distinguishing between movies and real life. Fred Lary (Remi Martin) is the son of a movie starlet, whose one great role before she committed suicide was Read More

Tolerance

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Rupert Everett, Anne Brochet, Marc de Jonge, Catherine Samie

Synopsis: In the 18th century, English aristocrats had, among their better known strange customs, one really strange one: they kept "ornamental hermits" for their gardens. These were actual people who were willing to live in squalid conditions and serve as something like museum exhibits for the amusement of Read More

Femme de Papier

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Hélène Lapiower, Caroline Loeb, Rufus, Thierry Fortineau

Paperback Woman

Synopsis: Originally Femme de Papier, Paperback Woman has also been released in English-speaking countries as Front Woman. Jean-Pierre Leaud stars as a publisher of steamy novels, while Helene Lapiower co-stars as Leaud's lover, a girl of limited talents who nonetheless is one of the publishing company's Read More

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin, Derek de Lint, Erland Josephson

Synopsis: In Philip Kaufman's surprisingly successful film adaptation of Czech author Milan Kundera's demanding 1984 bestseller, Daniel Day-Lewis stars as Tomas, an overly amorous Prague surgeon, while Juliette Binoche plays Tereza, the waiflike beauty whom he marries. Even though he's supposedly committed Read More

Mr. Universe

Actors: Laszlo Szabo, George Pinter, Mickey Hargitay

Synopsis: A pair of Hungarian filmmakers search the United States for the former Mr. Universe and husband of the late Jayne Mansfield, Mickey Hargitay in this comedy drama. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

L'Homme Qui A Vu L'Homme Qui A Vu L'Ours

Actors: Laszlo Szabo, Agnes Banfalvy, Richard Wilson

Accroche-Coeur

Actors: Patrick Bauchau, Sandrine Dumas, Laszlo Szabo, Elizabeth Kaza

Synopsis: Leo just broke up with his wife, and the handsome architect wants to enjoy his sadness at this event in solitude. Unfortunately for him, his young girlfriend, an unperceptive sprite, is too much in love with him to let him out of her sight. He is on his way to a resort in the south of France, and Read More

Le Testament d'un Poete Juif Assassiné

Actors: Michel Jonasz, Erland Josephson, Philippe Léotard, Wojciech Pszoniak

Synopsis: This somber drama chronicles the writings of Paltiel Kossover (Michel Jonasz), a Rumanian Jew who was incarcerated in a Stalinist prison. Zupanev (Erland Josephson) is a sympathetic court registrar who smuggles the documents and later presents them to the poet's son Grisha (Vincent David). ~ Dan Read More

L'Amour Par Terre

Actors: Jane Birkin, Geraldine Chaplin, André Dussollier, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Facundo Bo

Synopsis: The avant-garde founder of French New Wave Jacques Rivette, offers an on-going treatise of film versus theater in this basically non-story about two actresses and a director, or from another perspective, a play and a film. In the opening scenario, a couple come out of a bathroom and are surprised Read More

Paroles Et Musique

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Christopher Lambert, Richard Anconina, Jacques Perrin, Dayle Haddon

Synopsis: This routine French melodrama features Catherine Deneuve) as Margaux, an unhappily married recording-company executive with two children at home who starts an affair with Jeremy (Christophe Lambert), one of the singers she promotes through her company. Margaux's husband is away in New York working Read More

The Mysterious Death of Nina Chereau

Synopsis: In this drama, a woman is tried and convicted of murder. Though she swears her innocence, the judge sentences her to life in a mental institution. Ten years pass and she doesn't change her story. This causes a sympathetic psychiatrist to believe her and begin fighting for her release. ~ Sandra Read More

Les Favoris de la Lune

Actors: Pascal Aubier, Alix de Montaigu, Gaspard Flori, Emilie Aubry

Synopsis: Director Otar Iosseliani hit the nail on the head when describing Favorites of the Moon as "an abstract comedy." Indeed, if ten different people who saw the film were asked to describe the plot, there would be ten different answers. All would agree, however, that the storyline is contingent upon Read More

Sortuz Egy Fekete Bivalyert

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean Rochefort, Fanny Cottençon, Miklos B. Szekely, Laszlo Mate

Synopsis: In this comedy-drama about human foibles, the aftermath of war undoubtedly has something to do with the behavior and feelings of the people living in a small Hungarian village. The lives of the villagers are seen through the eyes of David (Laszlo Mate), an orphaned Jewish boy who has come to Read More

Full Moon in Paris

Actors: Pascale Ogier, Fabrice Luchini, Tchéky Karyo, Christian Vadim, Virginie Thévenet

Synopsis: A young woman looks for the true meaning of love and learns the truth of the old saw, "You don't know what you've got until it's gone," in this fourth installment in Eric Rohmer's Comedies and Proverbs series. The story opens with the proverb, "He who has two women loses his soul. He who has two Read More

Debout les Crabes, la Mer Monte!

Actors: Martin Lamotte, Veronique Genest, Virginie Thévenet, Richard Bohringer, Valérie Mairesse

Synopsis: The action in this attempt at farce and drama starts moving when a prostitute just out of prison overwhelms a young man with her charms in their shared train compartment and ends up getting invited to his home. Once there, other than inducing some unusual behavior in the members of the family, she Read More

Konnyu Testi Sertes

Actors: Karoly Eperjes, Peter Andorai, Vera Molnar

Synopsis: In this mix of black comedy and harsh drama, a man and wife are divorced yet still have to share their living quarters even though the wife has remarried -- housing is seriously hard to find in Budapest. Csaba (Karoly Eperjes) has just come out of doing a stint in prison because he stabbed a man Read More

Liberté, la Nuit

Actors: Emmanuelle Riva, Maurice Garrel, Christine Boisson, Laszlo Szabo, Brigitte Sy

Synopsis: Set during the Algerian war for independence in the 1950s and early '60s, this undistinguished drama centers on Jean (Maurice Garrel) who works covertly for the FLN, the Algerian independence fighters, and although he does not know it, the woman he loves (Mouche, played by Emmanuelle Riva), is Read More

Passion

Actors: Hanna Schygulla, Michel Piccoli, Isabelle Huppert, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Jean-Luc Bideau, Laszlo Szabo

Synopsis: Passion, a major film in Jean-Luc Godard's ongoing investigation of the relations between painting and cinema, uses innovative forms to explore political and economic questions. Jerzy Radziwilowicz plays a director shooting a film whose scenes are all reproductions of paintings by Goya, Valasquez Read More

A Remeny Joga

Actors: Ildikó Bánsági, Istvan Novak

Synopsis: A boy is staying with his grandfather while his expectant mother - pregnant by her lover - is seeking a divorce. Although the grandfather has a pleasant house, there is an oddball living upstairs who stomps around and telephones the grandfather at all times of the night. When the grandfather dies Read More

Ideiglenes Paradicsom

Actors: André Dussollier, Edit Frajt, Laszlo Szabo, Christian Van Cau

Synopsis: The time is World War II and Klari (Edit Frajt) is a young Jewish woman divorced from her husband, now in the Hungarian armed forces. She meets Jacques (Andre Dussolier), a French POW staying in a rather loosely-run hostel that allows the prisoners to come and go as they please. The two fall in Read More

Girls

The Last Metro

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Poiret, Heinz Bennent, Andréa Ferréol

Synopsis: The Last Metro is set virtually in its entirety in a crumbling French theatre. During the Nazi occupation, Jewish director Lucas Steiner (Heinz Bennent) hides in the basement of the theatre, while his wife Marion (Catherine Deneuve) stars in its latest production. Marion is enamored of leading man Read More

A Kedves Szomszéd

Actors: Laszlo Szabo, Lajos Szabó, Margit Dayka, Agi Margittay

Synopsis: Hungarian-born Laszlo Szabo returned to his native country to play the part of Dibusz in this comedy. When the residents of a large old house learn that it is to be torn down and that they will be relocated elsewhere, an intense game gets underway. As is usual in such instances, the residents will Read More

Rosszemberek

Actors: Janos Derzsi, Gyorgy Dorner, Mari Kiss, Miklos Benedek

Synopsis: The second in command of a group of highwaymen, the only ones left of Hungary's freedom fighters in the late 17th century, has a wife who really, really wants him to come home and stop gallivanting around the countryside. The only way he can figure to do this is to inform on the group to the Read More

Judith Therpauve

Actors: Simone Signoret, Philippe Léotard, François Simon, Robert Manuel

Synopsis: When her old resistance buddies come to her looking for someone to helm a financially troubled liberal newspaper, Judith (Simone Signoret) is at first reluctant, but for this old hero of the French anti-Nazi resistance, challenges are hard to ignore. She takes on the job, mortgaging her house to Read More

La Barricade du Point du Jour

Actors: Anicée Alvina, Jean-Luc Bideau, Philippe Noiret, Claude Brosset, Laszlo Szabo

Synopsis: Working people put the factory owners of the world on notice when they rebelled in France following that country's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War in 1871. Together, they created something called The Paris Commune, a revolutionary government which held sway for 73 days until the French military Read More

La Chanson de Roland

Actors: Klaus Kinski, Dominique Sanda, Alain Cuny, Pierre Clémenti, Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Synopsis: Roland des Roncesvalles is a legendary knight from the age of chivalry in France. In the 11th-century epic La Chanson de Roland, he is depicted as a key figure in halting the advance of the Arabs into France. In this story, the 10th-century legend is staged by a group of 12th-century pilgrims Read More

L'Affiche Rouge

Actors: Roger Ibanez, Pierre Clémenti, Laszlo Szabo, Julien Negulesco, Malka Ribovska

Synopsis: As they prepare to put on a play detailing the exploits of an unusual World War II resistance group which operated in France, members of the theatrical group listen to the stories told by those who were there. The group was composed of emigrants who had participated in the Spanish Civil War on the Read More

Le Male du Siècle

Actors: Juliet Berto, Claude Berri, Hubert Deschamps, Laszlo Szabo, Yves Afonso

Synopsis: In this crime comedy, a jealous chauvinistic husband worries more about his wife's fidelity than her safety after she is taken hostage by a bank robber. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Zig-Zig

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Bernadette Lafont, Hubert Deschamps, Walter Chiari, Stephane Shandor

Synopsis: This off-beat drama is set within the sleazy Pigalle sector of Paris. The tale centers on a song-and-dance team who work in a night club. When not at the club, the two work as prostitutes. One of the women ends up entangled in a kidnapping and is killed. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Adoption

Actors: Kati Berek, Laszlo Szabo

Synopsis: The film zeroes in on two women: Kata, older and widowed, and Anna, a downtrodden young women kept in a children's institution by her unloving parents. Her own sense of self-value strengthened by an unhappy love affair (she realizes that all fault lay with the man), Kata helps free Anna from her Read More

Bekötött szemmel

Actors: Andras Kozak, Jozsef Madaras, Sandor Horvath, Janos Koltai, Laszlo Szabo

Synopsis: An unexplained incident before a Hungarian firing squad during World War II is exploited by the authorities to boost morale during a difficult period. A man who was to be shot for desertion was left tied to the execution post while everyone else fled for cover during an aerial bombardment. When Read More

Almodo Ifjusag

Synopsis: Infused with the atmosphere of a provincial town in Hungary in the year 1906, this film considers the ensuing conflict when changes come to that part of the world, and the tendency of the town's established intellectuals to cling to the high culture of a bygone era. The story focuses on the Read More

Salut, Voleurs

Actors: Jacques Higelin

Synopsis: In this French crime caper film, a young misfit (Jacques Higelin) who has grown tired of his job as a bank teller deliberately gets fired. When some underworld characters ask him to share the layout of the bank so that they can more effectively rob it, he does. He also joins in the robbery. But Read More

Les Gants Blancs du Diable

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Yves Alfonso, Stephane Shandor

Synopsis: An enigmatic man, blind in one eye at first and later blind in both, is the hit man in this French thriller. The films opens with this man, in dark glasses, walking into a bar and shooting a barkeeper. With the help of an unscrupulous doctor, the gunman has donated one of his eyes to a government Read More

Valparaiso, Valparaiso!

Actors: Alain Cuny, Bernadette Lafont, Laszlo Szabo, Alexandra Stewart

Synopsis: Alain Cluny is Balthazar, a bumbling middle-aged intellectual who spouts off from time to time about leftist causes, usually to his current girlfriend. Then Edwarda (Bernadette Lafont), who is active in the political underground, comes into his life. From that point on, he begins to act on his Read More

L'Aveu

Actors: Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Michel Vitold, Jean Bouise

Synopsis: This Costa-Gavras thriller stars Yves Montand as an East European government functionary, inexplicably imprisoned by his Communist superiors. He is not told why he has been arrested, nor has his wife (Simone Signoret) been informed of his fate. Undergoing psychological torture, Montand is grilled Read More

Sirocco D'Hiver

Actors: Jacques Charrier, Marina Vlady, Eva Swann, Jozsef Madaras, Istvan Bujtor

Synopsis: A group of anarchistic Croatians cross borders to carry out their assassination plots in order to create political chaos. There are no heroes, only a collection of despicable humans. A lesbian couple rapes and terrorizes a roomful of women who are ordered to disrobe and perform unwanted sex acts Read More

Ismeri a Szandi-Mandit?

Actors: Edith Soos, Laszlo Szabo, Istvan Sztankay, Ferenc Kallai

Synopsis: Juli (Ilona Schuetz) is a 17-year-old student who takes a summer job in a local chemical factory. She is befriended by Piri (Adit Soos), a girl with an unsavory reputation who has worked there before. The two friends are ogled by male workers who have overactive libidos and imaginations. Juli Read More

Weekend

Actors: Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Valerie Lagrange, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jean Eustache, Paul Gégauff

Synopsis: French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard's Le Weekend remains his most consistently relentless attack on the bourgeois values of his own country and the perceived imperialism of the United States. Mireille Darc plays the central character, an "average" woman who is systematically radicalized during a Read More

Made in USA

Actors: Anna Karina, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Laszlo Szabo, Kyoko Kosaka

Synopsis: Jean-Luc Godard directed this brightly colored, pop-art homage to American crime cinema, which somehow finds room for extended commentary on leftist politics and the corrupt nature of advertising. Paula Nelson (Anna Karina) is a mystery woman (Is she a reporter? Perhaps a spy?) who used to be Read More

Pierrot Le Fou

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Dirk Sanders, Raymond Devos, Graziella Galvani

Synopsis: Pierrot le fou (1965) is Jean-Luc Godard's sixth film staring Anna Karina, his first wife. It is the story of Ferdinand (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and Marianne (Karina). They meet when Ferdinand's wife hires Marianne as a baby-sitter. As he drives Marianne home, Ferdinand decides to run away with her. Read More

Alphaville

Actors: Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff, Laszlo Szabo, Howard Vernon

Synopsis: In Alphaville, Jean-Luc Godard fuses a hardboiled detective story with science fiction. Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine), a hero Godard borrowed from a series of French adventure films, comes to Alphaville, the capital of a totalitarian state, in order to destroy its leader, an almost-human Read More

Les Plus Belles Escroqueries Du Monde

Actors: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Francis Blanche, Catherine Deneuve, Gabriella Giorgetti, Nicole Karen

Synopsis: This anthology helmed by four talented filmmakers, Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Hiromichi Horikawa, and Roman Polanski, allows viewers to meet and observe four international con artists. Each story is set within a different city. "Amsterdam" follows the attempts of a seductive Dutch woman to Read More

La Poupée

Actors: Zbigniew Cybulski, Sonne Teal, Daniel Emilfork, Laszlo Szabo

Synopsis: While there is an element of science fiction to this political satire about Latin American dictatorships, that element is primarily used to promote the storyline and the message, and not as a value in itself. In a make-believe Spanish-speaking country of the Americas, a dictator (Zbigniew Read More

Et Morte La Mort

Actors: Laszlo Szabo

Synopsis: Meant to be a stylistic take-off, this low-budget, first-time crime story by Gilbert Vergnes is an uneven ride into the minds and hearts of gangsters, detectives, and New Wave cinema. As the anti-hero wanders aimlessly like a tumbleweed, his innermost feelings are the subject of a running Read More

My Life to Live

Actors: Anna Karina, Saddy Rebbot, André S. Labarthe, Guylaine Schlumberger, Eric Schlumberger, Brice Parain, Gerard Hoffman, Monique Messine

Synopsis: Vivre Sa Vie presents 12 episodes in the life of a young woman who turns to prostitution to pay her rent. Each episode features a theatrical scene preceded by a title that lists the characters in the episode, its location, and a brief summary of the action. As he would throughout his career Read More

Ophélia

Actors: Alida Valli, André Jocelyn, Juliette Mayniel, Claude Cerval, Sacha Briquet

Synopsis: In this curious and inventive drama, director and co-writer Claude Chabrol purloins the Hamlet story from a certain Elizabethan bard, and has his characters move along the same plot outlines. Yvan (Andre Jocelyn) is overcome by grief when his father, a noted businessman, dies and is buried in Read More

Le Petit Soldat

Actors: Michel Subor, Anna Karina, Henri-Jacques Huet, Paul Beauvais, Laszlo Szabo

Synopsis: This controversial spy-romance tale by Jean-Luc Godard was banned from release in France for three years because it refers to the use of torture on both the French and Algerian sides during the Algerian struggle for independence. The story focuses on Bruno Forestier (Michel Subor), a young Read More

À Double Tour

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Antonella Lualdi, Madeleine Robinson, Jacques Dacqmine, Jean Valerie, Bernadette Lafont

Synopsis: New Wave director Claude Chabrol employs an aloof perspective in this tale of murder and a dysfunctional family. The paterfamilias Henri Marcoux (Jacques Dacqmine) is having a fling with the neighbor woman Leda (Antonella Lualdi). When she turns up murdered, police suspect the milkman, a friend of Read More