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Filmmaker · Hungary

István Gaál

Died in 2007

István Gaál was born in Salgótarján on 25 August 1933. Trained at the Academy of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest, he began with documentary and also worked as a cinematographer, before directing a first feature film in the early sixties. Director, screenwriter and editor of his films, he alternated fiction and documentaries until the mid-nineties, and devoted several works to the music of Béla Bartók. He died in Budapest on 25 September 2007, at the age of seventy-four.

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