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).
Pierrot le Fou
as L'Exilé Politique (uncredited)Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with...
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The Last Metro
as Lieutnant BergenIn occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the...
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
as Russian InterrogatorSuccessful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named...
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Alphaville
as Chief Engineer (uncredited)An American private-eye arrives in Alphaville, a futuristic city on another planet which is...
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Vivre Sa Vie
as Injured Man (uncredited)Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.
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Weekend
as L'Arabe (uncredited)A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of...
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The Little Soldier
as LaszloDuring the Algerian war for independence from France, a young Frenchman living in Geneva who...
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Ismael's Ghosts
as Henri BloomJust as the disheveled and alcoholic filmmaker Ismaël embarks on a difficult new film project,...
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The Confession
as Secret police manThe vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, knowing he's being watched and followed,...
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Full Moon in Paris
as Painter at CafeLouise is dissatisfied with her mundane life in a bleak Parisian new-town. She rents a...
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Godard's Passion
as LaszloWhile shooting a film, the director becomes interested in the unfolding struggle of a young...
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Made in U.S.A
as Paul WidmarkPaula Nelson goes to Atlantic City to meet her lover, Richard Politzer, but finds him dead and...
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Place Vendôme
as Charlie RosenThe story of a woman that remained distracted for a long time from her life, from the passions...
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Dossier 51
as Le contact de Sarah RobskiFrench diplomat Dominique Auphal is put under surveillance by an unnamed secret service. They...
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Katia
as (uncredited)Tsar Alexandre II meets a young student, Katia. He understands that he loves her and try to send...
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À double tour
as VladoThe mistress of the wealthy Henri Marcoux is murdered and the family accuses the milkman of...
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Esther Kahn
as Ytzhok KahnA Jewish girl in 19th century London dreams of becoming a stage actress.
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Special Delivery
as Le gardienAn unexpected phone call from a certain Kirsch sets off a crisis between Catherine and Raphaël...
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Adoption
as JóskaWhen middle-aged Kata realises that her life will only be complete if she has a baby of her own,...
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The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
as Police Inspector (segment "Le Grand escroc")Five swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan ("Fumiko's Five...
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The Sentinel
as PamiatA medical intern finds himself drawn into a world of international intrigue after discovering a...
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Paroles et musique
as AlainWhen Peter, Margaux's American writer husband, leaves Paris in a funk and heads home, she finds...
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Up, Down, Fragile
as Le père de Louise (voice)The film will tell what happens to a group of characters, precisely between July 14 and August...
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Cold Water
as Le père de GillesAn outer suburb of Paris, 1972. Gilles and Christine, both sixteen, are classmates and lovers...
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Ophélia
as uncreditedA young man becomes enraged when his mother remarries his wealthy uncle after his father dies.
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Playing 'In the Company of Men'
as Claude DoniolA troupe of actors rehearse a play. In the play-within-the-film, an ambitious son and his...
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Love on the Ground
as Virgil (as Laszlo Szabo)A playwright offers two actress friends the chance to appear in his new, unfinished play, which...
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Judith Therpauve
as uncreditedWhen her old resistance buddies come to her looking for someone to helm a financially troubled...
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The Mysterious Death of Nina Chereau
as MaraisA woman accused of murder escapes an asylum and her psychiatrist tries to find her.
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Le Grand Escroc
as The Police InspectorPatricia Leacock, reporter for an american television, is in Morocco on the trail of a...
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The Children Play Russian
as Jack Valenti: The producerA famous French filmmaker is hired by a major Hollywood producer to make a documentary on the...
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The Doll
as uncreditedAn avant-garde political satire that takes place in a mythical country in South America. The...
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Laços de Sangue
as PasteleroLina and Mariana run from an orphanage in Porto towards the south, in search of Lina's father....
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Stand Up Crabs, the Sea Is Rising!
as Le directeurBarely out of prison, where she spent five long years, a pretty prostitute sows disorder in the...
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Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné
as Paul HamburgerThis somber drama chronicles the writings of Paltiel Kossover (Michel Jonasz), a Rumanian Jew...
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The Vulture
as Kovács századosTwo old women who happen to be pickpockets stole money from Simon, the taxi driver. The police...
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The Girl
as Francia autós (uncredited)A young woman leaves a state orphanage to find her mother in this interesting examination of how...
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Binding Sentiments
as SzõlõsgazdaEdit, who became the wife of a politician out of a simple peasant girl, suddenly becomes a widow...
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Gardens in Autumn
as uncreditedWhen he loses his position as a powerful government minister, Vincent is dropped by his pretty...
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Male of the Century
as The gangsterThe wife of an extremely jealous merchant is held hostage by a bank robber.
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Parc
as Balthazar RutuolaGeorges Nail lives in a new suburb. He's married, loves his wife, son and dog. Paul Hammer is...
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Laissé inachevé à Tokyo
as uncreditedA young woman travels to Japan to write a novel.
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Favourites of the Moon
as TerroristA porcelain table service and a painting from the 19th century pass from hand to hand and...
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Silence and Cry
as DetectiveSet during a turbulent era of disquiet, fear, persecution and terror, which permeates every...
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Tolérance
as BernheimIn the 18th century, English aristocrats had, among their better known strange customs, one...
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Valparaiso, Valparaiso
as LazloAlain Cluny is Balthazar, a bumbling middle-aged intellectual who spouts off from time to time...
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The Punishment
as uncreditedAn aimless young woman is sent home from school with nothing to do. Drifting through the streets...
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The Song of Roland
as Duc Naimes / Chevalier hongroisRoland des Roncesvalles is a legendary knight from the age of chivalry in France. In the...
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Wrong-doers
as ÍrnokThe second in command of a group of highwaymen, the only ones left of Hungary's freedom fighters...
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Son of Gascogne
as SelfYou're a provincial kid in Paris and suddenly you're the center of attention: Movie stars,...
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Liberty at Night
as Le marionnettisteIn the mist of the Algerian events, a man finds a fugitive happiness beside a local woman.
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Minden szerdán
as GazsiStephen, living in a troubled family, breaks into a grocery store and wreaks vandalism. He is...
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The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man
as uncreditedThis is a dark story of a caring movie maker who struggles to make it and also struggles with...
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L'Affiche rouge
as Joseph BoczovA company wants to make a play about Mont Valerien resistant fighters who were shot by the Nazis...
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Mange ta soupe
as FatherA young man returns to the family home to face a childhood trauma: his brother's suicide, but...
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Abandoned
as PolicemanÁron is a happy child in his family. But at some point things take a different turn, and his...
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On appelle ça… le printemps
as JeanFanfan leaves his friend Charles and thinks he can be accommodated by his friend, Joss. However,...
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Un an
as PoussinVictoire wakes up one morning to find the body of her partner, Felix, lying on the floor of her...
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The Last Summer
as uncreditedImre Horváth and his friends gather to celebrate his wife's birthday. They are confused because...
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Happening
as uncreditedAt a reception, the guests amuse themselves with cruel games.
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Temporary Paradise
as László / Gérard1943. French POWs escape through Hungary towards the Balkan. Jacques and Gérard are caught and...
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Salut, voleurs!
as JoIn this French crime caper film, a young misfit who has grown tired of his job as a bank teller...
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Le Désir attrapé par la queue
as uncredited"Desire Caught by the Tail" - Described as surrealistic, absurd, and weird. The narrative is...
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The Last Judgement But One
as A másik nyomozóThe man is promoted and given a new assignment at his work-place. At home, he stares at a...
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Pleure Pas My Love
as uncreditedAfter the suicide of his actress-mother, a young man announces his identity to his father, who...
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The Fatal Shot
as BandiLaci and the divorced Klári decide to commit suicide, since neither's parents give them shelter,...
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Do You Know Sunday-Monday?
as Szabó mérnökJuli is a 17-year-old student who takes a summer job in a local chemical factory. She is...
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Seaside, Dusk
as uncreditedAlex gets a well-paid job from his friend Zsolt: he must smuggle drugs from Germany. Alex wants...
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