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Béla Balázs (I) (1884–1949)

Trivia:

Hungarian film theorist and screenwriter. A committed Marxist, he left Hungary in 1919. In Berlin from 1926, he was associated with leftist stage and film projects and worked closely with Bertold Brecht, G.W. Pabst and Erwin Piscator. Worked in Russia as a professor between 1931 and 1945, returning to Hungary after the war to help rebuild the film industry there... See more trivia »

Died:

(age 64) in Budapest, Hungary

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Filmography

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2009 Aki bújt (short) (short story "Gyermeked látja életed")
 
2001 The Miraculous Manderin (short) (scenario)
 
1988 Duke Bluebeard's Castle (TV movie) (libretto)
 
1981 A kékszakállú herceg vára (TV movie) (libretto)
 
1980 Karcsi kalandjai (TV movie) (novel)
 
1980 Veszélyes játékok (novel "Heinrich beginnt den Kampf")
 
1974 Dreaming Youth (novel)
 
1970 A faból faragott királyfi (TV movie) (libretto)
 
1970 A kékszakállú herceg vára (TV movie) (libretto)
 
1963 Herzog Blaubarts Burg (opera)
 
1948 It Happened in Europe (writer)
 
1932 Grand Hotel (uncredited)
 
1932 The Blue Light
 
1931 L'opéra de quat'sous (adaptation)
 
1931 The 3 Penny Opera (adaptation / as Balazs)
 
1931 Sonntag des Lebens (screenplay)
 
1929 Narkose (writer)
 
1928 Doña Juana (writer)
 
1927 Grand Hotel...!
 
1924 Kiedy kobieta zdradza meza (novel "Wife")
 
1924 Moderne Ehen (short story)
 
1921 Kaiser Karl
 
Show ShowActor (3 titles)
1949 Forró mezök
Man on the street (uncredited)
 
1929 The Storming of La Sarraz
Commander of Commercial Cinema's Army
 
1922 Sodom und Gomorrha
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Show ShowDirector (2 titles)
1932 The Blue Light (uncredited)
 
1928 Was wir wollen - Was wir nicht wollen (documentary short)
 
Show ShowMiscellaneous Crew (1 title)
1963 Herzog Blaubarts Burg (libretto - 1911)
 
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1947 Ének a búzamezökröl (artistic supervisor)
 
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Personal Details

Other Works:

(Book) Theory of the Film: Character and Growth of a New Art. London: Dennis Dobson, 1952.

Alternate Names:

Balazs
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Trivia:

Hungarian film theorist and screenwriter. A committed Marxist, he left Hungary in 1919. In Berlin from 1926, he was associated with leftist stage and film projects and worked closely with Bertold Brecht, G.W. Pabst and Erwin Piscator. Worked in Russia as a professor between 1931 and 1945, returning to Hungary after the war to help rebuild the film industry there... See more »

Star Sign:

Leo