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The Strand is a daily 18 minute programme highlighting the best of what's going in the arts. Wide-ranging and with eclectic interests, The Strand reflects the artistic response to the BBC's news agenda. Presented by Harriett Gilbert and friends, it features discussions, reviews, big-name interviews and location reports as well as live studio performances and Hollywood, Bollywood gossip.

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The Strand Archive: Istvan Szabo

Istvan Szabo

03/12/2012

BBC World Service - The Strand Archive, Istvan Szabo

The Oscar-winning Hungarian film director Istvan Szabo talks about his life and career.

Istvan Szabo was born in Budapest in 1938 and the films that led to him becoming the most acclaimed Hungarian director of his generation have frequently drawn on the struggles between conscience and ideology that he both experienced and witnessed at first-hand in post-war central Europe. His latest film The Door stars Helen Mirren as a Hungarian novelist's maid. He talks to Phillip Bergson about his life and career.

Photo by Oleg Nikishin/Epsilon/Getty Images.

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