Mephisto Articles
István Szabó Defends Past as Informant
The Guardian reports that Hungarian director István Szabó, 67, whose Mephisto won the 1981 best foreign-language film Academy Award, has been exposed "as a former informant for the communist authorities in 1950s Hungary. His activities coincided with the Soviet crackdown that followed the 1956 revolution and occurred when he was a student at the Budapest Academy of Film." Szabó defended himself from the accusations, saying [...]