Talk:István Szabó

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The whole "developing story" segment is poorly written. Poor grammar, and I cannot really understand what the issue is. I suggest changing this into an "ongoing event." Anyone with better knowledge of the story care to re-write/improve? - Darkhawk (19 Mar 2006 @ 12:48)

It requires some background knowledge to understand the whole situation. It will be a long article if all of the components would get explained in details. Please read the wikilinks provided within the article. I've added some new ones. And no, it's not an event, it's a story. Lajbi 12:48, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

I have added ongoing event and quality standards tags to the article. Regardless of a need for "background knowledge," the article still requires some clarification. I am aware of the difficulties of translating into English, but there has been enough North American coverage of the issue that someone must be able to fill in details. As i said, I am not familiar enough with the story, and the googlenews articles I can find all briefly gloss over the whole issue. He's making a movie based on it? Who was the endangered friend? I am leaving ongoing event because they haven't resolved how to react yet. Can't he go to prison now? - Darkhawk (19 Mar 2006 @ 23:54 EST)

Glad you're interested so. It's a question of reputation in Hungary. Someone who has been an undercover internal agent and gets discovered does also get disgraced morally. He is maybe the only one yet (because there are hundreds of former hidden agents still living) whose career survived that secret of their past. It is not punished with a sentence to jail in Hungary. He isn't announced that he has a film script about it on his mind. It was a coincindence (or a planned unveiling??) that this news and the Annual Film festival took place at the same time. Also there was a movie premiere of his at the show, but of a film with mainly different plot. There was a threat/chance of gettin boo-ed out, when making an acceptance speech on the stage, so that's why it is important it all came out good at the end (and also the Hungarian Prime Minister defended him at his presentation opening speech). Oh I almost forget : the endangered friend was simply a classmate of Szabó 50 years ago. He is slightly known in Hungary but not in international terms. Lajbi 10:24, 20 March 2006 (UTC)