(1908-80)
Polish film director. Born in Lodz, he studied at Warsaw Univeristy. His first feature film, Mascot, was made in 1930. At this time he became a co-founder of the Society of the Devotees of the Artistic film. His 1932 film The Street Legion was set in Warsaw. The next year he made Sabra in Palestine. In 1937 he founded the Co-operative of Film Authors in Poland. From 1939 he was in the Soviet Union where he produced films for the Red Army. Later he became head of Film Polski, and eventually head of the Lodz film school. In 1970 he emigrated to Israel.
Dictionary of Jewish Biography. Dan Cohn-Sherbok.