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

Message to Man

Strand, Under the Dark Cloth

Discovery in a Landscape

Dialogue with a Woman Departed

Leo T. Hurwitz: Filme für ein anderes Amerika

All Movies (5)

• Strand, Under the Dark Cloth1989 · as Self
• Message to Man1989 · as Self
• Dialogue with a Woman Departed1980 · as Himself
• Leo T. Hurwitz: Filme für ein anderes Amerika1980 · as Himself
• Discovery in a Landscape1970 · as Narrator