Baruch Dienar

Baruch Dienar, born in Hamburg in 1919, arrived in Palestine in 1934, trained at the teachers' seminary of Beit ha-Kerem and wrote film criticism for the radio from 1944. He learned screenwriting at Columbia University and worked for a time at Universal, then, back in 1949, directed mostly documentaries and television films. His first fiction film dates from 1960, the next from 1972. From 1979 to 1989 he headed the Israeli fund for quality cinema, and he died in Tel Aviv in 1997.

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• CinemaThey Were Tenהם היו עשרהBaruch Dienar · 1960Cinema