Aleksander Ford
Aleksander Ford, Russian Александр Форд, born Moshe Liwczyc, (born 11 Novemberjul / November 24 1908greg in Kiev, Russian Empire, .. † April 4, 1980 in Naples, Florida) was a Polish film director.
Life
Ford, who studied in Warsaw, was one of the most successful film directors in Poland in the interwar period. His first film he made already 1929. 1930 he was one of the founders of the Society of Lovers of art film (START) in Warsaw. During the time of the German occupation in the Second World War, he went to the Soviet Union, where he turned 1940-1943 training films for the Red Army and came back to Poland with the Red Army. As a documentary filmmaker ( 1945, he turned as one of the liberators of the concentration camp Majdanek Majdanek the documentary - cemetery in Europe ) and he was also the first director in 1945 in post-war Poland with the German occupation. At the film school in Lodz, he taught in the 1950s, the Director legends Andrzej Wajda and Roman Polanski. His most famous film is the adaptation of the novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz The Crusaders ( 1960). In 1968, he left the Communist Poland due to the anti-Zionist campaign, lived first in Israel, then in Denmark and finally in the United States.
Aleksander Ford took on 4 April 1980 in Florida life.