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Leo Hurwitz (June 23, 1909 – January 18, 1991) was an American documentary filmmaker. Among the films he directed were Native Land (1942) and Verdict for Tomorrow (1961), the Peabody Award -winning and Emmy Award-nominated film of the Eichmann trial.
Leo Hurwitz was one of the founders of the American documentary film and of the first documentary filmmaking collective, Frontier Films.
Learn about the life and work of Leo Hurwitz, one of the founders of the American documentary film and a key figure in the social and political movements of the 20th century. Explore his films, his family background, his blacklisting, and his legacy.
Leonid Hurwicz was born in Moscow on August 21, 1917 after the Kirensky revolution but before the October Bolshevik revolution. In early 1919, he and his family returned to Warsaw − his father’s home; his mother was also Polish − after the Communists came to power in Russia.
Interview with Leo Hurwitz on the Meaning and the Making of the Eichmann Trial. In 1986 The Jewish Museum in New York organized an exhibit on the subject of the filming of the Eichmann Trial in Jerusalem – a watershed event in which the SS Officer in charge of transporting Jews to their death in the extermination camps was found in Argentina, ...
Jun 24, 2008 · Leonid Hurwicz. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2007. Born: 21 August 1917, Moscow, Russia. Died: 24 June 2008, Minneapolis, MN, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA. Prize motivation: “for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory”
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Leo Hurwitz (1909-1991) was an American filmmaker who made documentaries and dramas. He directed footage of Adolf Eichmann's trial, co-wrote Native Land, and produced Dialogue with a Woman Departed.
