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Writer 1901 - 1983

Józef Lejtes

Warsaw, Russian Empire [now Poland]

Józef Lejtes was a Hungarian-born film director and screenwriter who made significant contributions to European and American cinema. He began his career in the Hungarian film industry in the 1920s, directing several notable films. Lejtes emigrated to the United States in the... Read full bio →

Filmography

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Passion

Passion

Allan Dwan 1954 1h 24m

In Mexican California, a land feud erupts and murder is committed when rich landowner Don Domingo reneges on an earlier verbal promise made by his father to grant to the tenant Melo family a piece of land.

Dziewczeta z Nowolipek

Dziewczeta z Nowolipek

Józef Lejtes 1937 1h 37m

Bronka, Franka, Amelka and Kwiryna are four girls living in the same poor district of Warsaw and going to the same school. They all fight for a better future but what the future brings is usually disappointment, sometimes even tragedy.

Mlody las

Mlody las

Józef Lejtes 1934 1h 11m

In the beginning of the 20th century, Polish students are fully aware that the education system is not one in which the truth is taught, but rather one their government wants them to learn. A student contradicts his professor's stance that Suworow was one of Poland's greatest leaders. The argument between the two eventually leads to a wide strike.

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