Aleksander Ford
Director | Writer | Screenplay | Dialogue
Aleksander Ford (born Mosze Lifszyc) 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 occupation of Poland. In 1948 the new communist authorities appointed him professor of the National Film School in Łódź. Roman Polanski was among his students. Another of Ford's protégés was the Polish film director Andrzej Wajda. Ford made his first feature f...
Place of Birth: Kiev, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]
Date of Birth: Nov 24, 1908
Date of Death: Apr 4, 1980
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