No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos (2008) on Netflix
NR20081h 26mDocumentary
In Hungary, cinematography students László Kovács and Vilmos Zsigmond photograph the 1956 Soviet invasion, then flee with their footage. In Los Angeles they take anonymous work on biker films.
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László Kovács and Vilmos Zsigmond are lifelong friends who studied cinematography in Hungary and defected after the 1956 Soviet invasion, filming its upheaval before they left. They carry their footage out of the country and end up in Los Angeles, where they find anonymous work on B-level biker films and wander into Roger Corman's orbit. Each then rises to prominence photographing classic movies, and both become key figures in the New Hollywood of the late 1960s and 1970s. The documentary traces their half-century friendship and the careers it produced, through film clips and interviews with collaborators and fellow filmmakers, who describe the pair's devotion to each other and to their families.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos (2008)
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- Robert Altman's death in 2006 and the onset of health problems for László Kovács pushed director James Chressanthis and his co-producers to reunite Kovács and Vilmos Zsigmond in front of a camera for the documentary.
