István Szabó's most recent film, a prize-winner at Cannes and presented this fall at the San Francisco Film Festival, is, like Lovefilm, the story of lovers whose relationship is inextricably connected to the political life of the Hungarian people. But, whereas in Lovefilm the lovers are separated by their conscious choice in the face of historical alternatives, in Confidence two people are thrown together by chance of political necessity, and out of this a love grows. In the fall of 1944, Janos and Kata, two complete strangers, 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, has remained reserved and suspicious since - which reserve, he insists, is not wholly inappropriate to the current hazardous situation. Even after a passionate love develops between them, the issue of trust is the subject of fierce fights.

Note: As we go to press, it has not been confirmed that a print of Confidence will be available for this date. If necessary we will substitute Szabó's Budapest Tales