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Ukrainian-born film director who worked in a variety of genres and whose notable credits included film noirs, war documentaries, and crime dramas..
Anatol Litvak
French and American director Date of Birth: 05.05.1902 Country: France |
Biography of Anatole Litvak
Anatole Litvak was a French and American filmmaker who worked in the Soviet Union, United Kingdom, Germany, France, and the United States.
Anatole Litvak died in a hospital in Neuilly, Paris, in December at the age of He was married to Miriam Hopkins from till their.
He was born on May 5, 1902, in Kiev, into a Jewish family. At the age of 14, he became a stage worker in a theater in Petrograd. Litvak studied philosophy at Petrograd University and attended acting school, where he performed in plays and worked as an assistant director.
In 1923, he started working in the film industry as an assistant director, production designer, and screenwriter.
Download stock image by Graziano Arici - THE ACTOR, DIRECTOR, WRITER AND PRODUCER ANATOLE LITVAK WITH THE DIRECTOR WILLIAM WYLER AND HIS WIFE IN VENICE.In 1925, he directed his first film, "Tatiana." In the same year, he left the Soviet Union and spent the next ten years working in Germany, England, and France. In Germany, he worked as an editor for Georg Wilhelm Pabst's film "Joyless Street" (1925) and as an assistant director on various productions.
In 1930, he became a director at UFA