István Gaál (25 August 1933 – 25 September 2007) was a Hungarian

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and

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. He directed more than 20 films between 1956 and 1996. With ''

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'' he won the Jury Prize at the

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 ...

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) * ''

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'' (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 ''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 ...

'' (1980) *1980: The Dance of Death/Haláltánc (tv) *1985: Orpheus and Eurydice/Orfeusz és Eurydiké *1986: Creatures of God/Isten teremtményei (tv) *1987: Uncle Béni/Béni bácsi (d) * ''

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'' (1988) *1989: Night/Éjszaka (tv) *1990: Music/Zene (d) *1995: Roman sonata/Római szonáta (d) *2000: Roots I-III./Gyökerek I-III. (d) *2004: Irregular Inventory of Paris/Rendhagyó párizsi leltár (tv) *2005: Kerala/Kerala (tv)

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* 1933 births 2007 deaths Hungarian film directors Hungarian film editors Hungarian male screenwriters People from Salgótarján 20th-century Hungarian screenwriters {{Hungary-film-director-stub