Magda Szabo The Door Film

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.

Magda szabo the door film.

I liked the book by magda szabo this movie does not do justice to the novel. Az ajtó is a 2012 english language hungarian drama film directed by istván szabó and starring martina gedeck and helen mirren. 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. 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.

Directed by istván szabó. 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. Magda is an aspiring writer hungry for inspiration and impressionable enough to quickly fall under the spell of her no nonsense new servant. 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.

Aside the fact that they all speak in accented english most movies with one of more english speaking actors that portray other countries do is made worse by some clumsy dubbing it feels like written by someone that speak bad english the editing is quite bizarre.