Aleksander Ford
Polish film director (1908–1980) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Aleksander Ford (born Mosze Lifszyc; 24 November 1908 in Kiev, Russian Empire – 4 April 1980 in Naples, Florida, U.S.) was a Polish film director and head of the Polish People's Army Film Crew in the Soviet Union during World War II. Following the war, he was appointed director of the Film Polski company.[1]
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Aleksander Ford | |
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Born | Mosze Lifszyc (1908-11-24)November 24, 1908 |
Died | April 4, 1980(1980-04-04) (aged 71) |
Nationality | Polish |
Occupation | Film director |
Known for | Head of government-controlled Film Polski |
In 1948 he was appointed a professor of the National Film School in Łódź (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa). Roman Polanski and Polish film director Andrzej Wajda were among his students. Amid an anti-Semitic purge in the communist party in Poland, Ford was stopped from preparing a film on the life of a Jewish educator.[2] Shortly afterwards he emigrated to Israel in 1968 and from there to the United States, going through Germany and Denmark. He took his own life in 1980 in Naples, Florida.[3]