Henryk Szaro

Henryk Szaro (1900 – 1942) was a Polish screenwriter and film director. He was born Henoch Szapiro, of Jewish background. He became a leading Polish director of the late 1920 and 1930s. Szaro was killed in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942 during the German Occupation of Poland in the Second World War.

Selected filmography

Director

• Exile to Siberia (1930)
• Pan Twardowski (1936)
• Ordynat Michorowski (1937)
• The Vow (1937)
• Three Troublemakers (1937)

References

Bibliography

• Haltof, Marek. Polish Film and the Holocaust: Politics and Memory. Berghahn Books, 2012.
• Skaff, Sheila. The Law of the Looking Glass: Cinema in Poland, 1896-1939. Ohio University Press, 2008.

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