Rotten Tomatoes
Cancel Movies Tv shows FanStore News Showtimes

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.

Show Less Show More

Highest-Rated Movies

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

Filmography

Movies TV Shows
Somewhere in Europe 1948 Screenwriter The Blue Light 70% 59% 1932 Director, Writer The Threepenny Opera 83% 87% 1931 Screenwriter The Threepenny Opera 33% 1931 Screenwriter
Load More