Aleksander Ford

1908 - 1980

Kijów, Imperium Rosyjskie (obecnie Ukraina)

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Biography

Aleksander Ford (born Mosze Lifszyc) was a Polish film director; and head of the Polish People's Army Film Crew in the Soviet Union during World War II. Ford became director of the nationalized Film Polski company following the Red Army occupation of Poland. In 1948 the new communist authorities appointed him professor of the National Film School