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István Gaál
István Gaál (25 August 1933 – 25 September 2007) was a Hungarian film director, editor and screenwriter. He directed more than 20 films between 1956 and 1996. With ''Falcons'' he won the Jury Prize at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival. Selected filmography *1955: Fifty/Ötven (s) *1957: Surfacemen/Pályamunkások (s) *1961: Etude/Etűd (s) *1962: To and Fro/Oda-vissza (d) *1962: Tisza - Autumn Sketches/Tisza - Őszi vázlatok (d) * ''Current'' (1963) *1965: Green Years/Zöldár *1967: Baptism/Keresztelő *1967: Chronicle/Krónika (d) *1969: Cuba's 10 Years/(Tíz) 10 éves Kuba (d) *1970: The Music of Night by Béla Bartók/Bartók Béla: Az éjszaka zenéje (s) * ''The Falcons'' (1970) *1971: Dead Landscape/Holt vidék *1975: Our Heritage/Örökségünk (d) *1975: Pictures from the Life of a Town/Képek egy város életéből (d) *1976: Two Trains a Day/Naponta két vonat *1976: Customs Frontier/Vámhatár (tv) *1977: Legato/Legato * ''Cserepek'' (1980) *1980: The Dance of D ...
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Salgótarján
Salgótarján (; , German: ''Schalgau'') is a city with county rights in Hungary, the capital of Nógrád County, north-eastern Hungary, making it the third least populous county capital. The nearby Salgó Castle is a well-known tourist attraction. Location At the foot of Karancs mountain, in the Cserhát hills, 250 meters above sea level, north-east from Budapest, west from Miskolc. Salgótarján is surrounded by beautiful forests and hills topped with castle ruins, which are accessible by bus that may be taken from the center of town. History The town already existed in the Middle Ages, but information on it is scarce possibly because it was a small settlement. The word ''salgó'' means "shining" in Old Hungarian, while ''Tarján'' was the name of one of the Hungarian tribes conquering the area. The castle of Salgó was built in the 13th century on a mountain of volcanic origin. In the 13th century the town already had a church. After the 1682 siege of the nearby Ca ...
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Budapest
Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the List of cities and towns on the river Danube, second-largest city on the river Danube. The estimated population of the city in 2025 is 1,782,240. This includes the city's population and surrounding suburban areas, over a land area of about . Budapest, which is both a List of cities and towns of Hungary, city and Counties of Hungary, municipality, forms the centre of the Budapest metropolitan area, which has an area of and a population of 3,019,479. It is a primate city, constituting 33% of the population of Hungary. The history of Budapest began when an early Celts, Celtic settlement transformed into the Ancient Rome, Roman town of Aquincum, the capital of Pannonia Inferior, Lower Pannonia. The Hungarian p ...
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Film Director
A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role in choosing the Casting (performing arts), cast members, production design and all the creative aspects of filmmaking in cooperation with the Film producer, producer. The film director gives direction to the cast and crew and creates an overall vision through which a film eventually becomes realized or noticed. Directors need to be able to mediate differences in creative visions and stay within the budget. There are many pathways to becoming a film director. Some film directors started as screenwriters, cinematographers, Film producer, producers, Film editing, film editors or actors. Other film directors have attended film school. Directors use different approaches. Some Outline (list), outline a general plotline and let the actors impro ...
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Film Editor
Film editing is both a creative and a technical part of the post-production process of filmmaking. The term is derived from the traditional process of working with film stock, film which increasingly involves the use Digital cinema, of digital technology. When putting together some sort of video composition, typically, one would need a collection of shots and footages that vary from one another. The act of adjusting the shots someone has already taken, and turning them into something new is known as film editing. The film editor works with raw footage, selecting Shot (filmmaking), shots and combining them into Sequence (filmmaking), sequences which create a finished Film, motion picture. Film editing is described as an art or skill, the only art that is unique to cinema, separating filmmaking from other art forms that preceded it, although there are close parallels to the editing process in other art forms such as poetry and novel writing. Film editing is an extremely important ...
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Screenwriter
A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, known as screenwriting. These can include short films, feature-length films, television programs, television commercials, video games, and the growing area of online web series. Terminology In the silent era, screenwriters were denoted by terms such as photoplaywright, photoplay writer, photoplay dramatist, and screen playwright.Maras, Steven. ''Screenwriting: History, Theory and Practice'', Wallflower Press, 2009, pp. 82–85. Screenwriting historian Steven Maras notes that these early writers were often understood as being the authors of the films as shown, and argues that they could not be precisely equated with present-day screenwriters because they were responsible for a technical product, a brief "Film scenario, scenario", "treatment", or "synopsis" that is a written synopsis of what is to be filmed. Profession Screenwriting is a contra ...
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The Falcons (film)
''The Falcons'' () is a 1970 Hungarian film directed by István Gaál about the training of falcons for use on farms to protect crops from birds. It is based on the 1967 novel by Miklós Mészöly. It won the Jury Prize at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival, tying with ''The Strawberry Statement''. Cast * Ivan Andonov Ivan Asenov Andonov (; 3 May 1934 – 29 December 2011) was a Bulgarian film director and actor. He directed more than thirty films, and is best known for his cinematography on ''Ladies' Choice (film), Ladies' Choice'' (1980), ''Dangerous Cha ... - Fiú * György Bánffy - Lilik * Gyula Bay * Gyula Gulyás * Gábor Harsányi * Pál Hriazik * Péter Kertész * Judit Meszléry - Teréz * Gábor Nadai * Sándor Nagy * Mihály Nyúl * Ferenc Paláncz * József Zémann References External links * 1970 films 1970s Hungarian-language films 1970 drama films Films directed by István Gaál Films about birds Hungarian drama films Cannes Jury P ...
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Jury Prize (Cannes Film Festival)
The Jury Prize () is an award of the Cannes Film Festival bestowed by the jury of the festival on one of the competing feature films. According to American film critic Dave Kehr, the award is "intended to recognize an original work that embodies the spirit of inquiry." History The award was first presented in 1946. The prize was not awarded on 10 occasions (1947, 1949, 1953, 1967, 1974–79, 1981–82, 1984, and 2001). The festival was not held at all in 1948, 1950, and 2020. In 1968, no awards were given as the festival was called off mid-way due to the May 68, May 1968 events in France. Also, the jury vote was tied and the prize was shared by two films on 21 occasions (1957, 1960, 1962–63, 1970–71, 1973, 1987, 1991–93, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2007, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2021–22, and 2025). Ken Loach and Andrea Arnold have won the most awards in this category, each winning three. Irma P. Hall is the only actress to win in this category, for her role in ''The Ladykillers (2004 film) ...
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1970 Cannes Film Festival
The 23rd Cannes Film Festival took place from 3 to 18 May 1970. Guatemalan author and Nobel Prize laureate Miguel Ángel Asturias served as jury president for the main competition. The ''Grand Prix du Festival International du Film'', then the fetival's main prize, was awarded to ''M*A*S*H'' by Robert Altman. In this edition, Robert Favre LeBret, the founder of the festival, decided not to include any films from Russia and Japan (their flags were also omitted on the Croisette). He was supposedly tired of the "Slavic spectacles and Japanese samurai flicks.". The Russians took back their juror Sergei Obraztsov (head of Moscow puppet theater) and left the jury panel with only eight members. The festival opened with '' The Things of Life'' by Claude Sautet and closed with '' Le Bal du Comte d'Orgel'' by Marc Allégret. Juries Main Competition *Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan author, diplomat and Nobel Prize laureate - Jury President * Guglielmo Biraghi, Italian film critic ...
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Cserepek
''Cserepek'' is a 1980 Hungarian drama film directed by István Gaál. It was entered into the 1981 Cannes Film Festival. Cast * Zygmunt Malanowicz - Vígh András * Katalin Gyöngyössy - András elvált felesége * Tamás Horváth - Zoli * Irma Patkós - Öregasszony * Edit Soós - Aranka * Eszter Szakács - Maja * Bella Tanay - Pszichológusnõ * Szilvia Várkonyi - Gyógypedagósnõ * László Horváth * József Bihari - András's dad (as Bihary József) * Márton Kálmán * Sándor Oszter - Villanyszerelõ * Flóra Kádár Flóra Kádár (; 4 August 1928 – 3 January 2003) was a Hungarian actress. She was known for her roles of ''Mrs. Hackl'' in the film Sunshine, ''Redl's sister'' in the film Colonel Redl, and ''Erzsi, Jóska's wife'' in the film Adoption. Li ... References External links * 1980 films 1980s Hungarian-language films 1980 drama films Films directed by István Gaál Hungarian drama films Hungarian-language drama films {{Hun ...
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Peer Gynt
''Peer Gynt'' (, ) is a five-Act (drama), act play in verse written in 1867 by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen. It is one of Ibsen's best known and most widely performed plays. ''Peer Gynt'' chronicles the journey of its title character from the Norwegian mountains to the North African desert and back. According to Klaus Van Den Berg, "its origins are Romanticism, Romantic, but the play also anticipates the fragmentations of emerging modernism" and the "cinematic script blends poetry with social satire and realistic scenes with Surrealism, surreal ones."Klaus Van Den Berg, "Peer Gynt" (review), ''Theatre Journal'' 58.4 (2006) 684–687 ''Peer Gynt'' has also been described as the story of a life based on procrastination and avoidance. Ibsen wrote ''Peer Gynt'' in deliberate disregard of the limitations that the conventional stagecraft of the Nineteenth-century theatre, 19th century imposed on drama. Its forty scenes move uninhibitedly in time and space and between conscious ...
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1933 Births
Events January * January 11 – Australian aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand. * January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independence, against the wishes of U.S. President Herbert Hoover. * January 28 – "Pakistan Declaration": Choudhry Rahmat Ali publishes (in Cambridge, UK) a pamphlet entitled ''Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever?'', in which he calls for the creation of a Muslim state in northwest India that he calls "Pakistan, Pakstan"; this influences the Pakistan Movement. * January 30 ** Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany (German Reich), Chancellor of Germany by President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg. ** Édouard Daladier forms a government in France in succession to Joseph Paul-Boncour. He is succeeded on October 26 by Albert Sarraut and on November 26 by Camille Chautemps. February * February 1 – Adolf Hitle ...
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2007 Deaths
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