Alexander Ramati (December 20, 1921 – February 18, 2006), born David Solomonovich Grinberg, V.Glazov ''Jack Grinberg. Oil tycoon from Brest-on-Bug''

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, October 15, 2014. was a Polish writer and film director.

Biography

Alexander Ramati was born in

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, then part of

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, into a

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family. During

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he worked as a war journalist. He entered

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with the Allied forces in June 1944, and there he first met

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. Later he interviewed him and wrote '' The Assisi Underground'', published in 1978. In 1985 he directed a film adaptation of the book. In 1985 he wrote ''And the Violins Stopped Playing: A Story of the Gypsy Holocaust'', which he also adapted to

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, in 1988. He died in

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, Switzerland.

Bibliography

* ''Beyond the Mountains'', also published as ''The Desperate Ones'' (novel) (1958) * '' The Assisi Underground'' (1978) * ''And the Violins Stopped Playing: A Story of the Gypsy Holocaust'' (1986) Google.com

Selected filmography

* '' The Desperate Ones'' (1967) * '' The Assisi Underground'' (1985) * '' And the Violins Stopped Playing'' (1988)

References

External links

* Polish male writers Polish film directors 20th-century Polish Jews 1921 births 2006 deaths Writers from Brest, Belarus Polish expatriates in Switzerland {{Poland-writer-stub