István Szabó: István Szabó. Director: Sunshine. István Szabó was the first director to bring home to Hungary the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. The movie receiving the award was his 1981 film Mephisto. In January 2006, it became public that he had been an agent of the III/III department, a former communist agency of interior intelligence. After the revolution in 1956, he was blackmailed and forced to cooperate, though later he...
Known For: Sunshine (Director), Mephisto (Director), Dear Emma, Sweet Böbe (Director), Meeting Venus (Director)