Henryk Szaro

Henryk Szaro
Szaro in 1931.
Born	23 October 1900 Warsaw, Russian Empire
Died	8 August 1942 Warsaw, Occupied Poland
Other names	Henoch Szapiro
Occupation(s)	Film director Screenwriter
Years active	1925–1939

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.[1]

Selected filmography

Director

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

References

1. Haltof p.11

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.

External links

• Henryk Szaro at IMDb