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Aleksander Ford is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Creative Director Polonais born on 24 november 1908 at Kiev (Ukraine)

Aleksander Ford

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Birth name Mosze Lifszyc
Nationality Pologne
Birth 24 november 1908 at Kiev (Ukraine)
Death 4 april 1980 (at 71 years) at Florida (USA)

Aleksander Ford born Mosze Lifszyc (Kiev, Russian Empire, 24 November 1908 – 4 April 1980, Naples, Florida, United States) was a Polish film director; and head of the Polish People's Army Film Crew in the Soviet Union during World War II. Ford became director of the nationalized "Film Polski" company following the Red Army liberation of Poland. In 1948 the new communist authorities appointed him professor of the National Film School in Łódź (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa). Roman Polanski was among his students. One of Ford's protégés was also the Polish ascent film director Andrzej Wajda. In 1968 Ford emigrated to Israel and from there through Germany and Denmark, to the United States. He committed suicide in 1980 in Naples, Florida.

Biography

Aleksander Ford commence sa carrière en tournant des films documentaires. En 1930, il se joint au mouvement START, fondé notamment par Wanda Jakubowska et Eugeniusz Cekalski. Tel que le décrit l'historien du cinéma Jean Mitry, « Pendant la guerre, après avoir dirigé des films d'instruction pour l'armée aux studios de Minsk et de Tachkent, Ford, engagé volontaire dans la légion Kosciusko, constitua avec Jerzy Bossak l'équipe des reporters cinématographiques de la première armée [...]. »
Ses films les plus connus sont Legion ulicy (1932), Majdanek, cimetière de l'Europe (1944), un « bouleversant témoignage sur les atrocités nazies et les déportés libérés », Ulica graniczna (1948), et Les Chevaliers Teutoniques (1960), l'un des plus grands succès populaires du cinéma polonais.

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Filmography of Aleksander Ford (10 films)

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Actor

And the Violins Stopped Playing, 1h56
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Horst Buchholz, Marne Maitland, Piotr Polk, Aleksander Bardini, Jerzy Nowak, Aleksander Ford
Roles Zenon
Rating68% 3.4254853.4254853.4254853.4254853.425485
The story opens in 1941 in Brest-Litovsk, with Dymitr Mirga (Horst Buchholz), a prominent Gypsy violin player, entertaining a group of Nazis in a restaurant. At first the Nazis enjoy the entertainment and assure the musicians that the ongoing removal of the region's Jews is being conducted for the sake of the Romani. However, Dymitr soon realizes the truth, and asks the head of the Gypsy community to lead its evacuation into Hungary, which at that time was still independent. The leader is reluctant to comply, and the community's council eventually forces him to resign, giving his position instead to Dymitr Mirga. The son of the deposed leader had been betrothed to a beautiful Romani named Zoya Natkin (Maya Ramati), who instead chose to marry Dymitr's son, Roman (Piotr Polk).

Director

Knights of the Teutonic Order, 2h32
Directed by Aleksander Ford
Origin Pologne
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical
Actors Lucyna Winnicka, Emil Karewicz, Stanisław Jasiukiewicz, Leon Niemczyk, Zbigniew Skowroński, Krzysztof Kowalewski
Rating68% 3.4498153.4498153.4498153.4498153.449815
En Pologne, au XIV siècle. Zbyszko de Bogdaniec, un jeune chevalier polonais, voyage avec son oncle Mathieu sur la route de Cracovie quand il rencontre la jeune Danusia, suivante de la duchesse Anne de Mazovie et fille du célèbre Jurand de Spychow, ennemi juré des chevaliers Teutoniques.
Five from Barska Street, 1h48
Directed by Andrzej Wajda, Aleksander Ford
Origin Pologne
Genres Drama
Actors Aleksandra Śląska, Tadeusz Janczar, Andrzej Kozak, Tadeusz Łomnicki, Kazimierz Opaliński, Mieczysław Stoor
Rating65% 3.2683853.2683853.2683853.2683853.268385
Five young men who have lost their ideals during the Nazi occupation make a living on stealing. After they have been caught and convicted they try to become legit. Hereby they encounter a variety of problemes including getting unwillingly entangled in plans of terrorists.
Border Street, 1h55
Directed by Aleksander Ford
Origin Pologne
Genres Drama, War
Actors Mieczysława Ćwiklińska, Jerzy Leszczynski, Jerzy Leszczyński, Władysław Walter, Tadeusz Fijewski, Maria Broniewska-Pijanowska
Rating71% 3.565353.565353.565353.565353.56535
Le quotidien, à Varsovie, de plusieurs enfants juifs et polonais, et de leur famille, de 1939 jusqu'au soulèvement du Ghetto, en 1943.
Children Must Laugh, 59minutes
Directed by Aleksander Ford
Origin Pologne
Genres Biography, Documentary
Rating65% 3.2753053.2753053.2753053.2753053.275305
Ce film documentaire à caractère promotionnel, produit par l'Union générale des travailleurs juifs (Bund), était destiné à lever des fonds auprès de la diaspora juive pour les œuvres du Bund dont le sanatorium Vladimir Medem faisait partie. Un prologue appelant à la solidarité internationale était ajouté dans la langue nationale du pays.

Scriptwriter

Knights of the Teutonic Order, 2h32
Directed by Aleksander Ford
Origin Pologne
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical
Actors Lucyna Winnicka, Emil Karewicz, Stanisław Jasiukiewicz, Leon Niemczyk, Zbigniew Skowroński, Krzysztof Kowalewski
Roles Dialogue
Rating68% 3.4498153.4498153.4498153.4498153.449815
En Pologne, au XIV siècle. Zbyszko de Bogdaniec, un jeune chevalier polonais, voyage avec son oncle Mathieu sur la route de Cracovie quand il rencontre la jeune Danusia, suivante de la duchesse Anne de Mazovie et fille du célèbre Jurand de Spychow, ennemi juré des chevaliers Teutoniques.
Five from Barska Street, 1h48
Directed by Andrzej Wajda, Aleksander Ford
Origin Pologne
Genres Drama
Actors Aleksandra Śląska, Tadeusz Janczar, Andrzej Kozak, Tadeusz Łomnicki, Kazimierz Opaliński, Mieczysław Stoor
Roles Writer
Rating65% 3.2683853.2683853.2683853.2683853.268385
Five young men who have lost their ideals during the Nazi occupation make a living on stealing. After they have been caught and convicted they try to become legit. Hereby they encounter a variety of problemes including getting unwillingly entangled in plans of terrorists.
Border Street, 1h55
Directed by Aleksander Ford
Origin Pologne
Genres Drama, War
Actors Mieczysława Ćwiklińska, Jerzy Leszczynski, Jerzy Leszczyński, Władysław Walter, Tadeusz Fijewski, Maria Broniewska-Pijanowska
Roles Ecrivain
Rating71% 3.565353.565353.565353.565353.56535
Le quotidien, à Varsovie, de plusieurs enfants juifs et polonais, et de leur famille, de 1939 jusqu'au soulèvement du Ghetto, en 1943.

Art

A Generation, 1h23
Directed by Janusz Morgenstern, Andrzej Wajda
Origin Pologne
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Tadeusz Łomnicki, Roman Polanski, Tadeusz Janczar, Ludwik Benoit, Tadeusz Fijewski, Kazimierz Wichniarz
Roles Creative Director
Rating70% 3.544763.544763.544763.544763.54476
A Generation is set in Wola, a working-class section of Warsaw, in 1942 and tells the stories of two young men at odds with the Germans occupation of Poland. The young protagonist, Stach (Tadeusz Łomnicki), is living in squalor on the outskirts of the city and carrying out wayward acts of theft and rebellion. After a friend is killed attempting to heist coal from a German supply train, he finds work as an apprentice at a furniture workshop, where he becomes involved in an underground communist resistance cell guided first by a friendly journeyman there who in turn introduces Stach to the beautiful Dorota (Urszula Modrzyńska). An outsider, Jasio Krone (Tadeusz Janczar), the temperamental son of an elderly veteran, is initially reluctant to join the struggle but finally commits himself, running relief operations in the Jewish ghetto during the uprising there.