Since the Hungarian new wave of the Sixties, István Szabó has continued to confront his country's social and political issues through intimate portraits of characters whose lives are inextricably connected to historical events. Szábo visited PFA in January 1981, when we showed his ground-breaking new wave works as well as what was then his latest film, Confidence, a Cannes prize-winner and a highlight of the 1980 San Francisco Film Festival. Szábo's Mephisto recently won the 1982 Academy Award for best foreign film. Confidence is a beautiful chamber piece which deals with World War II Hungary by treating its reflection in two characters, Janos and Kata, thrown together by chance of political necessity in the fall of 1944. Complete strangers, they are issued forged identity papers indicating that they are man and wife, and are obliged to move into an apartment together. Kata is a bourgeois wife and mother; completely out of her element, she seeks from Janos the warmth and sense of security to which she is accustomed. Janos, forced to flee fascist Germany as a student, retains a reserved suspicion in the current hazardous situation. Even after a passionate love develops between them, the issue of trust remains the subject of fierce fights.