László Szabó
« Dans une petite ville en Hongrie, ma mère est morte au matin d'un lundi de Pâques. J'avais onze ans. L'après-midi, je suis allé au cinéma parce que je n'osais pas rentrer à la maison... ». Dès lors, ainsi qu'il le confiera à Libération, le jeune László Szabó ne cesse de fréquenter les salles obscures. Arrivé en France en 1956, il se lie d'amitié avec les "jeunes Turcs" des Cahiers du cinéma et devient un assidu de la Cinémathèque de Langlois. Claude Chabrol lui offre ses premiers rôles, dans Les Cousins puis A double tour, tous deux sortis en 1959. Compagnon de route de la Nouvelle Vague, il apparaît aussi chez Rohmer (Les Nuits de la pleine lune), Rivette (L'Amour par terre) et François Truffaut (Le Dernier Métro), mais c'est avec Jean-Luc Godard que se noue une collaboration privilégiée. Flic douteux dans Made in USA, ingénieur dans Alphaville, il tient des seconds rôles décalés dans la plupart des films que le cinéaste tourne dans les années 1960, mais on le retrouve en 1982 dans le rôle du producteur dans Passion. Jean-Luc Godard inspire à László Szabó le goût de mise en scène. L'acteur signe en 1973 un polar loufoque, Les Gants blancs du diable, puis, un an plus tard, Zig-Zig, une comédie avec Catherine Deneuve et Bernadette Lafont. Il retourne tourner en Hongrie ses deux longs-métrages suivants David, Thomas et les autres en 1985 et Az ember, aki nappal aludt(L’homme qui dormait le jour) en 2003. Mais László Szabó reste acteur, en France comme en Hongrie. Habitué aux personnages louches, il incarne, à partir des années 1990, des figures paternelles dans les œuvres de ces jeunes héritiers de la Nouvelle Vague que sont Olivier Assayas (L'Eau froide), Arnaud Desplechin (Esther Kahn) ou Mathieu Amalric(Mange ta soupe).
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 2.398 |
Birthday | 1936-03-24 |
Place of Birth | Budapest, Hongrie |
Also Known As | Laslo Szabo, |
1980
The Last Metro
7.236/466
In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.
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The Last Metro
1965
Pierrot le Fou
7.419/820
Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an...
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Pierrot le Fou
1978
La Barricade du Point-du-Jour
0/0
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La Barricade du Point-du-Jour
1982
Godard's Passion
6.025/52
While shooting a film, the director becomes interested in the unfolding struggle of a young factory worker that has been laid off by a boss who did no...
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Godard's Passion
1984
Full Moon in Paris
6.773/110
Louise is dissatisfied with her mundane life in a bleak Parisian new-town. She rents a pied-à-terre in the city so she can experience independence.
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Full Moon in Paris
1967
Made in U.S.A
6.148/97
Paula Nelson goes to Atlantic City to meet her lover, Richard Politzer, but finds him dead and decides to investigate his death. In her hotel room, s...
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Made in U.S.A
1975
Adoption
6.695/41
When middle-aged Kata realises that her life will only be complete if she has a baby of her own, her longstanding-but-married boyfriend Joska refuses...
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Adoption
1994
Cold Water
6.538/40
An outer suburb of Paris, 1972. Gilles and Christine, both sixteen, are classmates and lovers who have become frustrated with the aloofness of their f...
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Cold Water
1995
Son of Gascogne
4.8/5
You're a provincial kid in Paris and suddenly you're the center of attention: Movie stars, famous directors and sexy women are doting on you because t...
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Son of Gascogne
1963
Ophélia
6.9/10
A young man becomes enraged when his mother remarries his wealthy uncle after his father dies.
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Ophélia
1978
Dossier 51
6.5/43
French diplomat Dominique Auphal is put under surveillance by an unnamed secret service. They wish to find a weakness in his life in order to control...
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Dossier 51
1963
The Little Soldier
7/156
During the Algerian war for independence from France, a young Frenchman living in Geneva who belongs to a right-wing terrorist group and a young woman...
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The Little Soldier
1976
L'Affiche rouge
6.9/6
A company wants to make a play about Mont Valerien resistant fighters who were shot by the Nazis and the French collaborators.
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L'Affiche rouge
2002
Special Delivery
4.8/13
An unexpected phone call from a certain Kirsch sets off a crisis between Catherine and Raphaël that will affect all those around them, be they close f...
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Special Delivery
2003
Playing 'In the Company of Men'
6.9/8
A troupe of actors rehearse a play. In the play-within-the-film, an ambitious son and his distant father fight for control of an armaments firm and ar...
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Playing 'In the Company of Men'
1979
Wrong-doers
5.7/3
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, real...
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Wrong-doers
2009
Parc
3.4/4
Georges Nail lives in a new suburb. He's married, loves his wife, son and dog. Paul Hammer is good looking, rich and intelligent. But he is torn by hi...
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Parc
1962
The Punishment
8/1
An aimless young woman is sent home from school with nothing to do. Drifting through the streets of Paris, she comes across a variety of people.
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The Punishment
1988
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
6.939/434
Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, and brings her back with him. Tereza is surprised to...
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
1998
Place Vendôme
6.218/39
The story of a woman that remained distracted for a long time from her life, from the passions that made her feel alive. The importance of true love i...
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Place Vendôme
1973
Valparaiso, Valparaiso
4.4/5
Alain Cluny is Balthazar, a bumbling middle-aged intellectual who spouts off from time to time about leftist causes, usually to his current girlfriend...
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Valparaiso, Valparaiso
1968
The Fatal Shot
0/0
Laci and the divorced Klári decide to commit suicide, since neither's parents give them shelter, they have no place to sleep, no decent job and no fut...
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The Fatal Shot
1992
Rome Roméo
0/0
David, 50 years old, returns to Rome for an appointment made 20 years earlier. The passion that bound him to the Countess Clara Orsini had ended with...
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Rome Roméo
1970
The Confession
7.283/115
The vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, knowing he's being watched and followed, is one day arrested and put into solitary confinement...
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The Confession
1995
Up, Down, Fragile
7.1/20
The film will tell what happens to a group of characters, precisely between July 14 and August 15, 1994 in Paris. It will tell the story of three youn...
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Up, Down, Fragile
1979
Rue du Pied de Grue
0/0
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Rue du Pied de Grue
1965
Alphaville
6.989/510
Lemmy Caution is on a mission to eliminate Professor Von Braun, the creator of a malevolent computer that rules the city of Alphaville. Befriended by...
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Alphaville
1989
Tolérance
2/1
In the 18th century, English aristocrats had, among their better known strange customs, one really strange one: they kept "ornamental hermits" for the...
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Tolérance
1984
Liberty at Night
5.9/11
In the mist of the Algerian events, a man finds a fugitive happiness beside a local woman.
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Liberty at Night
1997
Mange ta soupe
5.3/3
A young man returns to the family home to face a childhood trauma: his brother's suicide, but nobody in the family is willing to help him.
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Mange ta soupe
1962
Vivre Sa Vie
7.749/609
Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.
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Vivre Sa Vie
1987
Accroche-cœur
0/0
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 gir...
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Accroche-cœur
1984
Love on the Ground
5.6/9
A playwright offers two actress friends the chance to appear in his new, unfinished play, which consists of only one female part.
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Love on the Ground
1985
Favourites of the Moon
4.8/15
A porcelain table service and a painting from the 19th century pass from hand to hand and deteriorate over time, sealing the fate of different charact...
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Favourites of the Moon
2001
On appelle ça… le printemps
7/1
Fanfan leaves his friend Charles and thinks he can be accommodated by his friend, Joss. However, at the same time, Joss abandons the marital home. Fan...
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On appelle ça… le printemps
1982
Laissé inachevé à Tokyo
4.1/9
A young woman travels to Japan to write a novel.
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Laissé inachevé à Tokyo
1981
Temporary Paradise
7/1
1943. French POWs escape through Hungary towards the Balkan. Jacques and Gérard are caught and taken to an internment camp at Lake Balaton. Jacques me...
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Temporary Paradise
2017
Ismael's Ghosts
5.6/176
Just as the disheveled and alcoholic filmmaker Ismaël embarks on a difficult new film project, his life is sent into a tailspin. His wife Carlotta, pr...
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Ismael's Ghosts
1988
Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné
0/0
This somber drama chronicles the writings of Paltiel Kossover (Michel Jonasz), a Rumanian Jew who was incarcerated in a Stalinist prison. Zupanev (Erl...
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Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné
1973
Salut, voleurs!
7/1
In this French crime caper film, a young misfit who has grown tired of his job as a bank teller deliberately gets fired. When some underworld characte...
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Salut, voleurs!
1978
The Song of Roland
5.2/4
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 k...
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The Song of Roland
1983
Stand Up Crabs, the Sea Is Rising!
3.4/9
Barely out of prison, where she spent five long years, a pretty prostitute sows disorder in the life of a hitherto peaceful couple.
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Stand Up Crabs, the Sea Is Rising!
1969
Do You Know Sunday-Monday?
4.4/4
Juli is a 17-year-old student who takes a summer job in a local chemical factory. She is befriended by Piri, a girl with an unsavory reputation who ha...
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Do You Know Sunday-Monday?
1988
The Mysterious Death of Nina Chereau
4/1
A woman accused of murder escapes an asylum and her psychiatrist tries to find her.
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The Mysterious Death of Nina Chereau
1967
Le Désir attrapé par la queue
0/0
"Desire Caught by the Tail" - Described as surrealistic, absurd, and weird. The narrative is nonlinear and the meaning nearly impossible to decipher,...
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Le Désir attrapé par la queue
2000
Esther Kahn
6/23
A Jewish girl in 19th century London dreams of becoming a stage actress.
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Esther Kahn
1982
The Vulture
6/14
Two old women who happen to be pickpockets stole money from Simon, the taxi driver. The police are unable to find the thieves, so Simon decides to fin...
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The Vulture
1991
The Last Summer
3/1
Imre Horváth and his friends gather to celebrate his wife's birthday. They are confused because of the changes in the country's politics and want Horv...
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The Last Summer
1978
Cinématon
4.3/6
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 y...
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Cinématon
1959
À double tour
5.879/33
The mistress of the wealthy Henri Marcoux is murdered and the family accuses the milkman of committing the crime. But Marcoux's daughter's fiancé susp...
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À double tour
1992
Laços de Sangue
0/0
Lina and Mariana run from an orphanage in Porto towards the south, in search of Lina's father. It is in a difficult and chauvinistic world that they e...
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Laços de Sangue
1959
Katia
6.435/23
Tsar Alexandre II meets a young student, Katia. He understands that he loves her and try to send her away but they end up seeing each other again and...
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Katia
2003
The Outskirts of Alphaville
0/0
Making of Jean Luc Godard's Alphaville (1965)
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The Outskirts of Alphaville
1983
Cinématon XXIX
0/0
Reel 29 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.
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Cinématon XXIX
1968
Silence and Cry
7.095/21
Set during a turbulent era of disquiet, fear, persecution and terror, which permeates every corner of post-WWI Hungarian society. In 1919, after just...
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Silence and Cry
2006
Un an
0/0
Victoire wakes up one morning to find the body of her partner, Felix, lying on the floor of her bedroom. Without being able to reconstruct the course...
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Un an
1968
The Girl
6.667/15
A young woman leaves a state orphanage to find her mother in this interesting examination of how the overt repression of women in the older pattern of...
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The Girl
1969
Binding Sentiments
6.3/8
Edit, who became the wife of a politician out of a simple peasant girl, suddenly becomes a widow as a result of an accident. She never loved her husba...
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Binding Sentiments
1979
The Last Judgement But One
0/0
The man is promoted and given a new assignment at his work-place. At home, he stares at a video-cassette: it portrays his wife's face in countless ver...
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The Last Judgement But One
1998
The Alchemist and the Virgin
1/1
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The Alchemist and the Virgin
1999
The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man
0/0
This is a dark story of a caring movie maker who struggles to make it and also struggles with his demons and obsessions.
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The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man
1968
Happening
0/0
At a reception, the guests amuse themselves with cruel games.
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Happening
2000
Seaside, Dusk
0/0
Alex gets a well-paid job from his friend Zsolt: he must smuggle drugs from Germany. Alex wants to run away with the money to France, but suffering a...
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Seaside, Dusk
1989
Pleure Pas My Love
6/2
After the suicide of his actress-mother, a young man announces his identity to his father, who happens to be the man who directed his mother's last fi...
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Pleure Pas My Love
1993
The Children Play Russian
5.7/3
A famous French filmmaker is hired by a major Hollywood producer to make a documentary on the state of post-Cold War Russia. The filmmaker, though, su...
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The Children Play Russian
2006
Gardens in Autumn
5.7/10
When he loses his position as a powerful government minister, Vincent is dropped by his pretty mistress and must begin life anew, without the privileg...
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Gardens in Autumn
1974
Unruly Heyducks
4.7/3
This film, set at the beginning of the 17th century, is the first East-European "Eastern". Bocskai István orders the free Heyducks to shepherd a huge...
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Unruly Heyducks
1997
Modré z neba
3/2
Poetic movie about 3 generations of women.
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Modré z neba
1962
The Doll
5/5
An avant-garde political satire that takes place in a mythical country in South America. The dictator has been replaced by a look-alike revolutionary,...
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The Doll
1990
The Big O
0/0
A tribute to Orson Welles. When Kovacs meets Agi, he does not know what awaits him: cinema, alcohol and love do not mix well when you are a Hungarian...
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The Big O
1992
The Sentinel
6.7/33
A medical intern finds himself drawn into a world of international intrigue after discovering a shrunken human head in his luggage.
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The Sentinel
1975
Male of the Century
8/1
The wife of an extremely jealous merchant is held hostage by a bank robber.
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Male of the Century
2001
Abandoned
6.2/10
Áron is a happy child in his family. But at some point things take a different turn, and his mother starts to lose her health rapidly. As this happens...
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Abandoned
1988
Mr. Universe
0/0
Two Hungarian documentary makers, having heard nothing about their countryman Mickey Hargitay for almost 15 years, embark on a quest for the former bo...
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Mr. Universe
1984
Paroles et musique
5.037/27
When Peter, Margaux's American writer husband, leaves Paris in a funk and heads home, she finds herself the single parent of two near teens. She also...
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Paroles et musique
1978
Judith Therpauve
6.3/7
When her old resistance buddies come to her looking for someone to helm a financially troubled liberal newspaper, Judith (Simone Signoret) is at first...
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Judith Therpauve
1967
Weekend
7/268
A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French...
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Weekend
1964
Le Grand Escroc
0/0
Patricia Leacock, reporter for an american television, is in Morocco on the trail of a counterfeiter-philanthropist. Based on a real story which Chapl...
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Le Grand Escroc
1979
Minden szerdán
0/0
Stephen, living in a troubled family, breaks into a grocery store and wreaks vandalism. He is sent to a reform school. Later he works in a cleaning br...
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Minden szerdán
1964
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
5.265/17
Five swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan ("Fumiko's Five Benefactors" by Hiromichi Horikawa); Amsterdam, The Neth...
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The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
1980
Légitime défense
0/0
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Légitime défense
1979
A Nice Neighbor
0/0
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 th...
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