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.


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Leo T. Hurwitz: Filme für ein anderes Amerika

as Himself
Released: 1980-01-02

Documentary about American filmmaker Leo Hurwitz.

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Dialogue with a Woman Departed

as Himself
Released: 1980-11-23

A documentary about the film-maker's wife and co-worker, Peggy Lawson, who died in 1971.

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Strand, Under the Dark Cloth

as Self
Released: 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 Himself
Released: 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 Narrator
Released: 1970-01-01

Following his use of art, painting and sculpture, in his work of the previous decades, Hurwitz...

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