From his well established work as a painter and designer, Zoltán Huszárik (1931-1981) brought to his films a vivid and precise use of color and editing. Sinbad has been described as “the visual equivalent of a Baudelaire poem, complex, rich in images, lush in style, disciplined in structure” (Michael Webb, American Film Institute). With an evocation of fragmented time unequaled outside the work of French director Resnais, Huszárik remains faithful to the surrealist spirit and the associative language of the writings of Hungarian novelist Gyula Krúdy on which Sinbad is based. The film revolves around an aging Don Juan/Don Quixote figure who sifts through his memories in a vain search for peace. His drives and his destiny (death and resurrection, endlessly repeated) are materialized and anthropomorphized in the film's imagery.