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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

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Self

Strand, Under the Dark Cloth

1989

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Himself

Message to Man

1989

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Himself

Dialogue with a Woman Departed

1980

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Himself

Leo T. Hurwitz: Filme für ein anderes Amerika

1980

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Narrator

Discovery in a Landscape

1970

Credits

Strand, Under the Dark Cloth

as Self

1989

6.2

Message to Man

as Himself

1989

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Dialogue with a Woman Departed

as Himself

1980

7.8

Leo T. Hurwitz: Filme für ein anderes Amerika

as Himself

1980

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Discovery in a Landscape

as Narrator

1970

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