István Mihály | |
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Born | 29 June 1892 |
Died | 23 February 1945 (aged 62) |
Occupation | Screenwriter |
Years active | 1922–1944 (film) |
István Mihály (1892–1945) was a Hungarian screenwriter and lyricist.[1] He combined employment in the Hungarian film industry alongside work writing for cabarets.[2] Mihály was born to a Jewish family in Budapest. He began working in the silent era, and directed a single film The Seventh Veil (1927). His career flourished in the 1930s following the introduction of sound film, but the Anti-Jewish laws enacted by the Horthy regime forced him to work using an alias during the 1940s. In 1944 following the German invasion that brought the Nazi-backed Arrow Cross to power he was arrested due to his Jewish background and subject to forced labour. In a weakened condition he died in Bruck an der Leitha.