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Filmmaker · Poland

Henryk Szaro

Died in 1942

Henryk Szaro, born Henoch Szapiro in Warsaw in 1900, grew up in Russia: he attended secondary school in Saratov, then the Petrograd institute of communications engineers and the school of the Alexandrinsky Theatre. In 1923 he moved to the émigré Russian cabaret The Blue Bird in Berlin, settled in Warsaw in 1924, directed the Stańczyk literary theatre and made his film debut in 1925. He made fifteen films, founded two producers' associations and was, in August 1942, dragged from his home in the Warsaw ghetto and shot in the street.

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