Michel Safra

Michel Safra
Born	16 May 1899 Kiev, Russian Empire
Died	23 September 1967 (aged 68) Paris, France
Occupation	Producer
Years active	1932–1967 (film)

Michel Safra (1899–1967) was a Russian-born French film producer. He was born in the Ukrainian city of Kiev, then part of the Russian Empire. After working in the German cinema for a decade during the silent era, during the early 1930s he began producing films in the French film industry.[1]

In 1938 he established the production and distribution company DisCina with André Paulvé and produced around thirty films until his death in 1967. He was part of a sizeable contingent of Russian-born figures working in the French film industry during the era.[2]

Selected filmography

• In the Service of the Tsar (1936)
• Personal Column (1939)
• The Sharks of Gibraltar (1947)
• The King (1949)
• All Roads Lead to Rome (1949)
• Lady Paname (1950)
• Just Me (1950)
• Pleasures of Paris (1952)
• Flesh and the Woman (1954)
• Black Dossier (1955)
• Paris, Palace Hotel (1956)
• A Kiss for a Killer (1957)
• Magnificent Sinner (1959)
• Shéhérazade (1963)
• Gibraltar (1964)
• The Diabolical Dr. Z (1967)

References

1. Crisp p.168
2. Crisp p.168

Bibliography

• Crisp, C.G. The Classic French Cinema, 1930-1960. Indiana University Press, 1993

External links

• Michel Safra at IMDb