for export to Western European markets. As a result the films became more formally experimental, politically anti-establishments, and, especially in the case of Szabó, psychologically probing than the films of the previous generation . The Hungarian filmmakers in particular experienced a significant increase in freedom of expression due to reforms of the Kádár government. Hungarian films, 1964–1980 Szabó's first feature film, The Age of Illusions (1964), is a partly autobiographical film about how Szabó's generation struggled to start a career. it focuses on what experiences they had when they first became entrants to the labour market, meanwhile they had to overcome the difficulties the older generation had posed for them, that also set the stage for developing romantic relationships amongst themselves. The appearance of a poster for François Truffaut's The 400 Blows in the background of a scene suggests Szabó's artistic compatibility with Truffaut and the French New Wave. The film won the Silver Sail for Best First Work at the Locarno International Film Festival and a Special Jury Prize for Best Director at the Hungarian Film Festival. Father (1966) is a coming of age story that displays Szabó's increasing fascination with history and his childhood memories. The plot covers events from the Arrow Cross party's dictatorship to the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, revolving around the orientation disorder and self awareness of a generation that had to grow up without a father figure in wartime. The main character replaces the image of his absent father figure with fantasy images that keep changing with time. These events take place during a period of his life when he began his transition to adulthood. Finally, he is able to face his own situation and comes to understand as a university student that he has to rely on his own strength rather than that of an idealised father figure. The film won the Grand Prix at the 5th Moscow International Film Festival and the Special Jury Prize at Locarno, and established Szabó as the most internationally famous Hungarian filmmaker of his time, as well as an auteur in the European film tradition. In 2000, Father appeared as number 11 on a list of the 12 best Hungarian films according to a group of Hungarian film critics. Lovefilm (1970) focuses on a young man's relationship with his childhood sweetheart, told through flashbacks that include the Arrow Cross dictatorship and 1956, and rendered in an experimental,