# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/istvan-gaal
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:04:11.130Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/istvan-gaal"
name: "István Gaál"
slug: "istvan-gaal"
description: "István Gaál was a Hungarian film director, editor and screenwriter. He directed more than 20 films between 1956 and 1996. With Falcons he won the Jury Prize at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival."
tagline: "Hungarian film director (1933–2007)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ga%C3%A1l_Istv%C3%A1n_filmrendez%C5%91.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1933-08-25"
deathDate: "2007-09-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.36
  momentum:             0.9326424870466321
  historical:           13.34092933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0311179/"
    handle:    "nm0311179"
sources:
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    title: "Гааль, Иштван"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "إشتفان غال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%AA%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "اشتفان جال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istv%C3%A1n_Ga%C3%A1l"
    title: "István Gaál"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istv%C3%A1n_Ga%C3%A1l"
    title: "István Gaál"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istv%C3%A1n_Ga%C3%A1l"
    title: "István Gaál"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istv%C3%A1n_Ga%C3%A1l"
    title: "István Gaál"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istv%C3%A1n_Ga%C3%A1l"
    title: "István Gaál"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istv%C3%A1n_Ga%C3%A1l"
    title: "István Gaál"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ga%C3%A1l_Istv%C3%A1n_(filmrendez%C5%91)"
    title: "Gaál István (filmrendező)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istv%C3%A1n_Ga%C3%A1l"
    title: "István Gaál"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istv%C3%A1n_Ga%C3%A1l"
    title: "István Gaál"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istv%C3%A1n_Ga%C3%A1l"
    title: "István Gaál"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istv%C3%A1n_Ga%C3%A1l"
    title: "István Gaál"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istv%C3%A1n_Ga%C3%A1l"
    title: "István Gaál"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q897981"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1180566"
    title: "István Gaál"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump