Henryk Szaro
Henryk Szaro (1900 – 1942) was a Polish screenwriter and film director. He was born Henoch Szapiro, of Jewish background. He became a leading Polish director of the late 1920 and 1930s. Szaro was killed in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942 during the German Occupation of Poland in the Second World War.[1]
Henryk Szaro | |
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 Szaro in 1931. | |
| Born | 23 October 1900 |
| Died | 8 August 1942 Warsaw, Occupied Poland |
| Other names | Henoch Szapiro |
| Occupation | Film director Screenwriter |
| Years active | 1925–1939 |
Selected filmography
Director
- Exile to Siberia (1930)
- Pan Twardowski (1936)
- Ordynat Michorowski (1937)
- The Vow (1937)
- Three Troublemakers (1937)
References
- Haltof p.11
Bibliography
- Haltof, Marek. Polish Film and the Holocaust: Politics and Memory. Berghahn Books, 2012.
- Skaff, Sheila. The Law of the Looking Glass: Cinema in Poland, 1896-1939. Ohio University Press, 2008.
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