Alexander Ford ( Polish Aleksander Ford , actually Moshe Livshits Polish. Mosze Lifszyc , November 24, 1908 , Kiev , Russian Empire - April 4, 1980 , Naples , Florida , USA ) - Polish filmmaker. Since 1969 in exile.
| Alexander Ford | ||||
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| Aleksander Ford | ||||
| Birth name | Moshe Livshits | |||
| Date of Birth | November 24, 1908 | |||
| Place of Birth | Kiev , Ukraine | |||
| Date of death | April 4, 1980 (71 years old) | |||
| Place of death | Naples , Florida | |||
| Citizenship |  Poland  Israel  USA | |||
| Profession | filmmaker | |||
| Career | 1929 - 1975 | |||
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Biography
He studied at the Faculty of Art History at the University of Warsaw . He made his film debut with short films "Over the Morning" and "Polish Manchester" (both - 1928 ). In his early paintings he anticipated the style of Italian neorealism . In 1945 - 1947 - Director of the state association Film Polski (Polish Film), 1955 - 1968 - Artistic Director of the Creative Union Studio . Ford's most famous film - “The Crusaders ” based on the novel by Sienkiewicz - gained immense popularity in Poland and abroad [1] . The film based on Marek Hlasko ’s book “The Eighth Day of the Week”, shown in 1958 at the IFF in Venice , was banned for a long time in Poland.
Emigration
In the late 1960s, Ford began work on a film about Janusz Korczak , but the project was closed under pressure from anti-Semitic forces [2] (Ford managed to implement it later). In the midst of the political crisis of 1968, he was fired from his job and emigrated to Israel , then to Denmark and the USA . The film adaptation of Solzhenitsyn ’s novel “In the First Circle”, despite the participation of Elzhbety Chizhevskaya and Olga Chekhova , was met with criticism negatively; Alexander Isaevich condemned her [1] . And other Ford films, shot abroad, were not successful with the public and criticism. He committed suicide in a hotel in a resort town of America called Naples .
Selected Filmography
- 1932 - Legion ulicy
- 1933 - Sabra / Sabra [3]
- 1935 - the woman did not have sadness / Nie miała baba kłopotu
- 1938 - People of the Wisla / Ludzie Wisły
- 1948 - Border Street / Ulica Graniczna [4]
- 1952 - Youth of Chopin / Młodość Chopina
- 1953 - Five from Barska Street / Piątka z ulicy Barskiej [5]
- 1958 - The Eighth Day of the Week / Ósmy dzień tygodnia [6]
- 1960 - Crusaders / Krzyżacy [7]
- 1964 - First Freedom Day / Pierwszy dzień wolności
- 1971 - In the first circle / Den foerste Kreds [8]
- 1974 - You Are Free, Dr. Korczak / Die sind frei, Dr. Korczak
Notes
- ↑ "Krzyżacy" - polska superprodukcja wszech czasów (Polish) . film.onet.pl (July 13, 2010). Date of treatment November 9, 2015.
- ↑ Ford Alexander , EEE
- ↑ Sabra (1933)
- ↑ about the Holocaust ; Gold medal of the Venice IFF
- ↑ award for directing at Cannes IFF
- ↑ according to the story of Marek Hlasko , in one of two main roles - Zbigniew Tsybulsky , the film is prohibited by censorship, first shown in 1983
- ↑ based on the novel by G. Senkevich
- ↑ based on the novel by A. Solzhenitsyn
Film Director Literature
- Janicki S. Aleksander Ford. Warszawa: Wydawn. Artystyczne i Filmowe, 1967