Henryk Szaro
| Henryk Szaro | |
|---|---|
| Born |
23 October 1900 Warsaw, Russian Empire |
| Died |
8 August 1942 Warsaw, Occupied Poland |
| Other names | Henoch Szapiro |
| Occupation |
Film director Screenwriter |
| Years active | 1925 - 1939 |
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]
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.