Magda Szabo The Door Film

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.

Magda szabo the door film.

Directed by istván szabó. Magda is an aspiring writer hungry for inspiration and impressionable enough to quickly fall under the spell of her no nonsense new servant. I liked the book by magda szabo this movie does not do justice to the novel. An author forms a strange bond with her eccentric maid that will have a lasting effect on both women.

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. Az ajtó is a 2012 english language hungarian drama film directed by istván szabó and starring martina gedeck and helen mirren. 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.

With helen mirren martina gedeck károly eperjes gábor koncz.