Henryk Szaro
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Henryk Szaro | |
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![]() Szaro in 1931. | |
Born | 23 October 1900 |
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)
- (1937)
- (1937)
- (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.
External links[]
- Henryk Szaro at IMDb
Categories:
- 1900 births
- 1942 deaths
- People who died in the Warsaw Ghetto
- Polish film directors
- Polish screenwriters
- Film people from Warsaw
- 20th-century screenwriters
- Polish film biography stubs