Filmmaker · Slovenia
Jože Gale
Died in 2004
Jože Gale was born on 11 May 1913 in Grosuplje, the brother of the poet Ana Gale. After the teacher training school in Ljubljana, he studied drama and stage direction at the Prague conservatoire, then worked before the war at the theatre in Ljubljana. Imprisoned during the war, he joined the partisans in 1943 and took part in their theatre section. After the war, he turned to cinema, where he directed fourteen films and mentored about fifty others. He received the Badjura Prize in 2002 for his entire career and died in Ljubljana on 24 September 2004.