Leo Hurwitz

Biography

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.

Known For

Dialogue with a Woman Departed

as Himself

Strand, Under the Dark Cloth

as Self

Discovery in a Landscape

as Narrator

Message to Man

as Himself

Leo T. Hurwitz: Filme für ein anderes Amerika

as Himself