Magda Szabo The Door Film

Directed by istván szabó.

Magda szabo the door film.

The book she was reading was a paperback novel with a pale gray cover by the hungarian writer magda szabó called the door it was first published in hungary in 1987 then here in 1995. I liked the book by magda szabo this movie does not do justice to the novel. Magda szabo really makes the reader work hard with this book and i for one found the characters and the story unconvincing the door is a novel by hungarian writer magda szabo. The film was selected to be featured in the competition programme at the 34th moscow.

The film which takes place in 1960s hungary opens with mirren s character landing a job as a maid for a well off married couple of magda martina gedeck and tibor károly eperjes. The novel documents two decades of life in budapest after the communist takeover in 1948 the novel tells the story of a developing and complicated relationship between a. Az ajtó is a 2012 english language hungarian drama film directed by istván szabó and starring martina gedeck and helen mirren. Magda is an aspiring writer hungry for inspiration and impressionable enough to quickly fall under the spell of her no nonsense new servant.

It is based on the hungarian novel of the same name concerning the relationship of a novelist gedeck and her eccentric maid mirren in early 1970s hungary.