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Béla Balázs

Highest Rated: 83% The Threepenny Opera (1931)

Lowest Rated: 70% The Blue Light (1932)

Birthday: Aug 4, 1884

Birthplace: Szeged, Austria-Hungary

Balasz wrote and directed several films but is best known for his theoretical tomes, "The Visible Man" (1924) and "Theory of the Film" (1945). He championed the new medium, stressing its purely visual capacity and its ability to reveal human emotions through subtle physical gestures.

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Highest rated movies

83% 87% The Threepenny Opera
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70% 59% The Blue Light
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Somewhere in Europe
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33% The Threepenny Opera
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Filmography

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No Score Yet No Score Yet Somewhere in Europe Screenwriter - 1948
70% 59% The Blue Light Director,
Writer
- 1932
83% 87% The Threepenny Opera Screenwriter - 1931
No Score Yet 33% The Threepenny Opera Screenwriter - 1931