Borys Lewin

Borys Lewin
Lewin and his wife in 1960.
Born	1 October 1914 Minsk, Russian Empire
Died	4 November 1992 Paris, France
Other names	Boris Lewin
Occupation(s)	Editor, Director
Years active	1938–1978 (film)

Borys Lewin (1914–1992) was a Russian-born French film editor.[1] Lewis was born in Minsk in Belarus, which was then part of the Russian Empire. He is sometimes credited as Boris Lewin. He edited around fifty films and television series and also directed one film The Hunted (1950).[2]

Selected filmography

• Conflict (1938)
• Prison sans barreaux (1938)
• The Last Turning (1939)
• The World Will Tremble (1939)
• Bethsabée (1947)
• Eternal Conflict (1948)
• The Hunted (1950)
• Rue des Saussaies (1951)
• The House on the Dune (1952)
• The Earrings of Madame de... (1953)
• Hungarian Rhapsody (1954)
• Mata Hari's Daughter (1954)
• Scènes de ménage (1954)
• French Cancan (1955)
• The Little Rebels (1955)
• The Affair of the Poisons (1955)
• Elena and Her Men (1956)
• The Happy Road (1957)
• The Big Chief (1959)
• The Lions Are Loose (1961)
• Mandrin (1962)
• Sept hommes et une garce (1967)

References

1. Crisp p.276
2. DeMaio p.95

Bibliography

• DeMaio, Patricia A. Garden of Dreams: The Life of Simone Signoret. Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2014.
• Crisp, Colin. French Cinema—A Critical Filmography: Volume 2, 1940–1958. Indiana University Press, 2015.

External links

• Borys Lewin at IMDb