Béla Gaál (2 January 1893 – 18 February 1945) was a Hungarian film director. His 1930 film Csak egy kislány van a világon was the first sound film to be made in Hungary.[1]

Béla Gaál
1923
Born	(1893-01-02)2 January 1893 Dombrád, Austria-Hungary
Died	18 February 1945(1945-02-18) (aged 52) Dachau Concentration Camp, Nazi Germany
Occupation	Screenwriter Film director
Years active	1920 - 1939

In 1945 he was interned by the Nazis in Dachau Concentration Camp, where he would die.

Selected filmography

• Csak egy kislány van a világon (1930)
• Vica the Canoeist (1933)
• The New Relative (1934)
• Rotschild leánya (1934)
• Everything for the Woman (1934)
• The Dream Car (1934)
• Az aranyember (1936)
• Hotel Kikelet (1937)
• Modern Girls (1937)

References

Bibliography

• Buranbaeva, Oksana & Mladineo, Vanja. Culture and Customs of Hungary. ABC-CLIO, 2011.
• Burns, Bryan. World Cinema: Hungary. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1996.
• Cunningham, John. Hungarian Cinema: From Coffee House to Multiplex. Wallflower Press, 2004.

External links

• Béla Gaál at IMDb

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