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(aka "Bizalom" )
directed by Istvan Szabo
Hungary 1980
The DVD of Confidence is compared to the Blu-ray HERE
During the 1944 Nazi occupation of
Hungary, a young woman (Ildikó Bánsági, MEETING VENUS)
learns abruptly that her husband (Lajos Balázsovits, REQUIEM)
is part of a underground revolutionary group and has had to go
into hiding. She is told that she too must go underground and is
given a new identity as Kata, wife of the similarly pseudonymous
Janos Biro (Péter Andorai, DELIVER US FROM EVIL) with who
she must share a rented room in the house of an old couple (Oszkárné
Gombik and Károly Csáki) sympathetic to their plight. Extremely
wary of the possibility of exposure and distrustful of everyone,
Janos bullies her into secrecy and insists that they withhold
personal information even from each other. Janos is also
extremely suspicious of Kata, and she grows increasingly
resentful of the elaborate tests he devises to gauge her
trustworthiness; although she too grows fearful and paranoid in
her encounters with others. Isolated together mostly in the
confines of their single room, Kata and Janos are drawn into a
love affair built partly upon confessions about their real lives
and shared escapist fantasies. Their happiness is short-lived,
however, as the increasing Nazi presence and contacts with their
spouses create more distrust and jealousy. |
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Theatrical Release: 10 January 1980 (Hungary)
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DVD Review: Second Run DVD - Region 0 - PAL
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Runtime | 1:41:09 (4% PAL speedup) | |
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1.76:1 Original Aspect Ratio
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Audio | Hungarian Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo | |
Subtitles | English, none | |
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Release Information: Studio: Second Run DVD Aspect Ratio:
Edition Details: Chapters 12 |
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The DVD of Confidence is compared to the Blu-ray HERE Second Run's dual-layered, progressive, anamorphic transfer is derived from a 2011 Hungarian restoration. The video is virtually spotless apart from the reel changes and a few white specs around these points. The back cover states that the Dolby Digital 2.0 audio is "Original stereo (restored)" but IMDb states mono. If it is a stereo mix, it's not active enough to be noticeable (there is no separation in the rare score passages or the phonograph music and the explosion sound effects heard late in the film are more loud than directional). The optional English subtitles are error free, but occasionally fail to fully translate overlapping dialogue (usually combinations of spoken dialogue and voice-over); however, they get the job done. The only video extra is a twenty-minute English-language interview with the director shot for Turner Classic Movies' "Off Set" series. He discusses how he wanted to be a doctor, his experiences in the theatre in college, and his fascination with "how love turns into jealousy in movement" in front of the camera. He bypasses most of his early films in favor of speaking about his collaboration with actor Klaus Maria Brandauer starting with MEPHISTO (probably Szabo's best-known film stateside), MEETING VENUS (with Glenn Close), BEING JULIA (with Annette Benning), and SUNSHINE (with Ralph Fiennes), and his appreciation of the professionalism and collaborative attitudes of the actors with which he has worked. The interview concludes with Szabo name-checking some other Hungarian personalities in Hollywood's past (specifically director Michael Curtiz). Catherine Portuges contributes a sixteen-page liner notes essay on the feature. |
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