Ottó Forgács Explained

Ottó Forgács
Birth Date:	2 February 1921
Birth Place:	Budapest, Hungary
Death Date:	9 February 1999 (aged 78)
Death Place:	Budapest, Hungary
Occupation:	Cinematographer
Yearsactive:	1948–1981 (film & TV)

Ottó Forgács (1921–1999) was a Hungarian cinematographer.^[1] He worked in the Hungarian Film Industry shooting more than fifty feature films and shorts during his career. In 1953 he was worked on the popular release The State Department Store.^[2]

Selected filmography

• Underground Colony (1951)
• The State Department Store (1953)
• Spiral Staircase (1957)
• What a Night! (1958)
• A Bird of Heaven (1958)
• Sunshine on the Ice (1961)
• The Man of Gold (1962)
• Tales of a Long Journey (1963)
• The Moneymaker (1964)
• Lady-Killer in Trouble (1964)

Bibliography

• Cowie, Peter & Elley, Derek. World Filmography: 1967. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1977.
• Waligórska-Huhle, Magdalena. Music, Longing and Belonging: Articulations of the Self and the Other in the Musical Realm. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

Notes and References

1. Cowie & Elley p.247
2. Waligórska-Huhle p.15