Nathan Axelrod

Nathan Axelrod was born in 1905 in Dubrovna, in Belarus, into a family of Jewish revolutionaries who fled to Poltava during the pogroms. A Zionist activist, imprisoned for it, he reached Palestine in 1926 and worked in the late twenties for Yerushalayim Segal's company Moledet. He was the cameraman of Oded le vagabond, the country's first fiction feature film, founded Carmel Films in 1935, whose newsreel began to carry sound in 1936, and filmed the declaration of independence in 1948. He died in Tel Aviv in 1987.

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• CinemaUpon the Ruinsמעל החורבותNathan Axelrod · 1938Cinema