Lewis Milestone

Lev Milstein was born in 1895 in the Russian Empire and grew up in Kishinev, in a well-off Jewish family. Sent to study engineering in Mittweida, Germany, he left for the United States in 1913, worked as a janitor and a door-to-door salesman, and in 1917 enlisted in the army's photographic section, where he learned editing. He directed thirty-eight feature films from 1925 to 1962, from war films to comedy, and died in Los Angeles in 1980.

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• CinemaAll Quiet on the Western FrontLewis Milestone · 1930Cinema