Magda Szabo The Door Film

I liked the book by magda szabo this movie does not do justice to the novel.

Magda szabo the door film. With helen mirren martina gedeck károly eperjes gábor koncz. 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. 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 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.

An author forms a strange bond with her eccentric maid that will have a lasting effect on both women. 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. 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.

The film was selected to be featured in the competition programme at the 34th moscow.