Leo Hurwitz

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Leo Hurwitz (born June 23, 1909 in Brooklyn , New York City , † January 4, 1991 in Manhattan , New York City) was an American film director , film producer , screenwriter , film editor and cameraman .

Life

Leo Hurwitz made numerous documentaries dealing with social issues in the United States. After starting in the newsreel business, where he made short films about the hunger marches during the depression, he dealt with current problems in 15 films.

The trained cameraman founded "Frontier Films" in 1936, for which he presented works on the Spanish Civil War and the US labor disputes of the 1930s. After a period in which Hurwitz worked for official positions during the Second World War, he produced Strange Victory in 1947 , in which he addressed the problem of racism and which won several awards.

As a political leftist he was blacklisted during McCarthyism , but continued to work anonymously and independently. a. also for CBS . From 1969 to 1974 he taught at New York University . The four-hour film poem Dialogue With a Woman Departed won the International Film Critics' Prize in 1981.

He was married to Peggy Lawson (until 1971) and Jane Dudley. Peggy Lawson co-directed The Museum and the Fury . His son Tom Hurwitz (* 1947) also became a documentary filmmaker.

Filmography

  • 1936: The Plow That Broke the Plains (documentary short film; camera)
  • 1936: Netze ( speech ; screenplay)
  • 1937: Spaniens Herz (Heart of Spain) (documentary short film; editor)
  • 1942: Native Land (direction, production, screenplay and editing)
  • 1948: Strange Victory (documentary; direction, screenplay and editing)
  • 1956: The Museum and the Fury (documentation; direction and production)
  • 1961: Eichmann Trial (television documentary film; director)
  • 1981: Dialogue with a Woman Departed (documentary; director, production, screenplay, editor and camera)
  • 1999: A specialist ( Un spécialiste, portrait d'un criminel moderne , documentary film; camera)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Glenn Fowler: Leo Hurwitz, 81, Blacklisted Maker Of Documentaries Obituary in the New York Times , January 19, 1991
  2. ↑ David Walsh : A conversation with award-winning cinematographer Tom Hurwitz wsws.org, June 29, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Hurwitz, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film director, film producer, screenwriter, film editor and cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City
DATE OF DEATH 4th January 1991
Place of death Manhattan , New York City