Leo Hurwitz
Born: 1909-06-23
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.
Dialogue with a Woman Departed
as HimselfReleased: 1980-11-23
A documentary about the film-maker's wife and co-worker, Peggy Lawson, who died in 1971.
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Leo T. Hurwitz: Filme für ein anderes Amerika
as HimselfReleased: 1980-01-02
Documentary about American filmmaker Leo Hurwitz.
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Strand, Under the Dark Cloth
as SelfReleased: 1989-12-13
This documentary studies the life and artwork of photographer Paul Strand, using his own...
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Message to Man
as HimselfReleased: 1989-06-01
In January 1989 the first Message to Man International Film Festival took place in Leningrad....
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Discovery in a Landscape
as NarratorReleased: 1970-01-01
Following his use of art, painting and sculpture, in his work of the previous decades, Hurwitz...
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