Directing · geboren 1909-06-23 · New York, New York

Leo Hurwitz

Son of a Russian anarchist, Leo Hurwitz graduated Harvard summa cum laude and became a leader in New York’s left wing film movement from the early 1930s on. In the Workers’ Film and Photo League, NYKino, and Frontier Films, Hurwitz remained the quintessential politically committed cameraman, editor, writer, and director.

Bekannt aus

• Redes (1936) – Screenplay
• The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936) – Director of Photography
• Native Land (1942) – Director
• Dialogue with a Woman Departed (1980) – Himself
• Strand, Under the Dark Cloth (1989) – Self
• Strange Victory (1948) – Director
• The Sun and Richard Lippold (1966) – Writer
• Heart of Spain (1937) – Editor
• Tomorrow We Fly (1943) – Director
• The National Hunger March 1931 (1932) – Director
• This Island (1970) – Director
• For Life, Against the War (1967) – Director
• Discovery in a Landscape (1970) – Narrator
• Послание к человеку (1989) – Self
• Leo T. Hurwitz: Filme für ein anderes Amerika (1980) – Himself
• Bonus March 1932 (1932) – Director
• Dancing James Berry (1955) – Writer
• Light and the City (1970) – Producer
• Discovery in a Painting (2016) – Producer
• The Young Fighter (1953) – Producer
• Here at the Water's Edge (1961) – Director
• Emergency Ward (1952) – Director
• The Museum and the Fury (1956) – Director
• An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy (1964) – Director
• Hunger: The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932 (1933) – Director
• America Today (1934) – Director
• Detroit Workers News Special 1932: Ford Massacre (1932) – Director
• In Search of Hart Crane (1966) – Writer
• America Applauds: An Evening for Richard Rodgers (1951) – Director