Joseph Lejtes

Józef Lejtes was born in Warsaw in 1901 into an assimilated Jewish family that had come from Russia. An assistant to Mihály Kertész in Vienna, he became one of the leading directors of prewar Polish cinema, with films on national history including Huragan, in 1928, about the 1863 uprising. Enlisted in Anders' army, he arrived with it in Palestine and made several films there until 1952, then passed through Great Britain and settled in the United States, where he worked mainly for television. He died in Santa Monica in 1983.

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• CinemaThe Great PromiseJoseph Lejtes · 1947Cinema