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Leo Hurwitz

Leo Hurwitz

Born: 1909-06-23 • New York, New York

Son of a Russian anarchist, Leo Hurwitz graduated Harvard summa cum laude and became a leader in New York’s left wing film movement from the early 1930s on. In the Workers’ Film and Photo League, NYKino, and Frontier Films, Hurwitz remained the quintessential politically committed cameraman, editor, writer, and director.

Filmography
Strand, Under the Dark Cloth poster
Strand, Under the Dark Cloth
1989 • Self
Message to Man poster
Message to Man
1989 • Himself
Dialogue with a Woman Departed poster
Dialogue with a Woman Departed
1980 • Himself
Leo T. Hurwitz: Filme für ein anderes Amerika poster
Leo T. Hurwitz: Filme für ein anderes Amerika
1980 • Himself
Discovery in a Landscape poster
Discovery in a Landscape
1970 • Narrator