Leo Hurwitz

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

Self

Message to Man

Self

Dialogue with a Woman Departed

Himself

Leo T. Hurwitz: Filme für ein anderes Amerika

Himself

Discovery in a Landscape

Narrator