György Konrád

A German television format in which Günter Gaus interviewed prominent members of German society, particularly politicians. More than 200 interviews were conducted over the course of 40 years.

To his guests – artists, scientists, writers, philosophers and musicians – Wim Kayzer in Of Beauty and Consolation asks the philosophical question: What makes this life worth living?

The history of the 20th century told through the memories and reflections of the Spanish writer/politician Jorge Semprún, the Hungarian writer György Konrád, the cosmopolitan writer/literary critic George Steiner and the Latin American writer Gabriel Garcia Márquez.

Twenty well-known Hungarian artists - 10 right-wing (said to be) and 10 left-liberal (said to be) writers, directors, actors, musicians talk about the regime change and what has happened to us here in the last 30 years.

A young doctor undergoes a spiritual crisis when he returns to his rural home.