MEETING VENUS

The Hungarian conductor Zoltan Szanto is invited to conduct Tannhäuser by Richard Wagner in Paris. Szanto has to face problems with the ego of the artists, strikes and his family since he falls in love with the diva Karin Anderson. But in the end, his love for Karin and passion for Wagner bring redemption to him.

Szabó is the most internationally famous Hungarian filmmaker since the late 1960s. He made his first short film in 1959 as a student at the Hungarian Academy of Theatrical and Cinematic Arts, and his first feature film in 1964. He achieved his greatest international success with Mephisto (1981), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Since then, most of Szabó's films have been international co-productions filmed in a variety of languages and European locations.