...This book focuses on the ouvre of István Szabó, a director who is central to the perception and understanding of Hungarian cinema and its place in the wider world. Szabó is, without doubt, one of the giants of world cinema, an artist who has successfully taken his filmmaking onto the international...

... in check or monitored. It also discusses some of the reasons for the relative openness in Hungary, including the initiatives of György Aczél who became Deputy Minister of Culture under the Kádár regime in 1957. Finally, it analyzes attempts to define Hungarian cinema by the use of notions of control...