Henryk Szaro (1900 – 1942) was a Polish

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and

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. He was born Henoch Szapiro, of

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background. He became a leading Polish director of the late 1920 and 1930s. Szaro was killed in the

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in 1942 during the

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in the

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.Haltof p.11

Selected filmography

Director

* '' Exile to Siberia'' (1930) * ''

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'' (1936) * '' Ordynat Michorowski'' (1937) * '' The Vow'' (1937) * '' Three Troublemakers'' (1937)

References

Bibliography

Haltof, Marek Marek Haltof (Józef Marek Haltof, born 1957 in Cieszyn, Poland,) is a professor of film studies. specializing in the cultural histories of Polish and Australian film. He studied at the University of Silesia (Uniwersytet Śląski) in Poland and at ...

. ''Polish Film and the Holocaust: Politics and Memory''. Berghahn Books, 2012. * Skaff, Sheila. ''The Law of the Looking Glass: Cinema in Poland, 1896-1939''. Ohio University Press, 2008.

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