Alexandre Ryder
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Alexandre Ryder | |
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Born | 13 August 1891 |
Died | 25 August 1966 |
Occupation | Film director, screenwriter |
Years active | 1920—1950 |
Alexandre Ryder (1891–1966) was a Polish-born French film director best known for his crime drama films of the 1920s and 1930s.
He directed some 20 films between 1920 and 1950.
His 1940 film (My Crimes after Mein Kampf) was a propaganda film directed against Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler's policies. Germany had invaded Poland, Ryder's homeland, a year earlier in 1939.
Selected filmography[]
- The Woman with Closed Eyes (1926)
- The Criminal (1926)
- Buridan's Donkey (1932)
- Mirages (1938)
External links[]
Categories:
- Polish film directors
- French film directors
- Silent film directors
- French male screenwriters
- 20th-century French screenwriters
- French people of Polish descent
- 1891 births
- 1966 deaths
- People from Będzin
- 20th-century French male writers
- Polish film director stubs
- French film director stubs