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Filmmaker · Poland

Michał Waszyński

Died in 1965

Michał Waszyński, born Mosze Waks on 29 September 1904 in Kovel, in Volhynia, into a Hasidic family, acted in the theatre in Kiev, then changed his name at the age of eighteen at the instigation of Wiktor Biegański, whose assistant he was. In ten years he made about forty films in Poland, mostly in popular genres. Enlisted in 1941 in the Polish army formed in the Soviet Union, he filmed the Near East and the battle of Monte Cassino with it, then worked as a producer in Italy and Spain. He died in Madrid on 20 February 1965.

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