Béla Balázs(1884-1949)

Writer
Actor
Director

Béla Balázs was born on 4 August 1884 in Szeged, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was a writer and actor, known for The Threepenny Opera (1931), Sonntag des Lebens (1931) and Karl Brunner (1936). He was married to Anna Hamvassy and Edit Olga Hajós. He died on 17 May 1949 in Budapest, Hungary.

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Known for

The Threepenny Opera

7.2

Writer(as Balazs)

1931

Sonntag des Lebens

Writer

1931

Karl Brunner

Writer(as B. Balash)

1936

Moderne Ehen

Writer

1924

Credits

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Writer

Cineficción Podcast: Ayer, hoy y mañana
Podcast Series
- book "Der Film"
- 2026
Selecciones de Cineficción Radio
Podcast Series
- book "Der Film"
- book "The Visible Man"
- 2024–2025
Bluebeard's Castle
Video
- libretto
- 2022
Duke Bluebeard's Castle
Video
- libretto
- 2020
Le château de Barbe-Bleu
TV Movie
- libretto (segment "Le chateau de Barbe-Bleu")
- 2015
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live
8.9
TV Series
- libretto by: segment - Bluebeard's Castle
- 2015
Aki bújt
Short
- short story "Gyermeked látja életed"
- 2009
A kékszakállú herceg vára
7.3
- libretto
- 2005
Duke Bluebeard's Castle
7.8
TV Movie
- libretto
- 1988
A kékszakállú herceg vára
7.5
TV Movie
- libretto
- 1981
Karcsi kalandjai
TV Movie
- novel
- 1980
Veszélyes játékok
- novel "Heinrich beginnt den Kampf"
- 1980
Az utolsó nap
TV Movie
- Writer
- 1979
Dreaming Youth
6.2
- novel
- 1974
Kalandok és figurák
TV Movie
- novel
- 1974

Actor

Director

Personal details

Alternative names
- B. Balash
Born
- August 4, 1884
- Szeged, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
Died
- May 17, 1949
- Budapest, Hungary(complications from a stroke)
Spouses
Other works
Book: "Theory of the Film: Character and Growth of a New Art".

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Trivia
Hungarian film theorist and screenwriter. A committed Marxist, he left Hungary in 1919. In Berlin from 1926, he was associated with leftist stage and film projects and worked closely with Bertolt Brecht, Georg Wilhelm Pabst and Erwin Piscator. Worked in Russia as a professor between 1931-45, returning to Hungary after the war to help rebuild the film industry there. A studio in Budapest for young experimental filmmakers was later named in his honor.