Pál Gábor (2 November 1932 – 21 October 1987) was a Hungarian

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 ...

and

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 ...

. He directed 20 films between 1962 and 1987. In 1979, he was a member of the jury at the

29th Berlin International Film Festival The 29th Berlin International Film Festival was held from 20 February – 3 March 1979. The Golden Bear was awarded to ''David (1979 film), David'' directed by Peter Lilienthal. The retrospective was dedicated to Italian actor Rudolph Valentino ...

. His most famous work was 1978's ''

Angi Vera ''Angi Vera '' is a 1978 Hungarian drama Drama is the specific Mode (literature), mode of fiction Mimesis, represented in performance: a Play (theatre), play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on Radio drama, radio or t ...

'', about a woman in a re-education camp in post-war Hungary. His films usually focused on the concerns of people in communist Hungary.

Selected filmography

* '' Tiltott terület'' (1968) * '' Horizont'' (1970) * '' Utazás Jakabbal'' (1972) * ''A járvány'' (1975) * ''

'' (1978) * '' Kettévált mennyezet'' (1981) * '' Hosszú vágta'' (1983) * '' A menyasszony gyönyörű volt'' (1986)

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* 1932 births 1987 deaths Hungarian film directors Hungarian male screenwriters Writers from Budapest 20th-century Hungarian screenwriters {{Hungary-film-director-stub