Aleksander Ford (born November 24, 1908; died April 4, 1980) was a Polish film director. November 24 is the 328th day (329th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1908 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... April 4 is the 94th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (95th in leap years). ... 1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ...

Polish filmmaker Aleksander Ford played a key role in establishing Poland's international reputation for excellent cinema. One of Ford's protégés was perhaps the world's best-respected Polish director, Andrzej Wajda. Andrzej Wajda Andrzej Wajda (born March 6, 1926) is a Polish film director, one of the most prominent members of the Polish Film School. ...

After a year of making short silent films, Ford made his first feature-length film, Mascot, in 1930. He did not use sound until The Legion of the Street (1932). When World War II erupted, Ford went to the Soviet Union and worked closely with Jerzy Bossak to establish the film unit for the Polish military. A silent film is a film which has no accompanying soundtrack. ... 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ... World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons like the atom bomb World War II, also known as the Second World War, was by far the bloodiest, most expensive, and most significant war in...

After the war, Ford headed the government-controlled Film Polski and held enormous sway over the country's entire film industry. He and a core of dedicated colleagues who were affiliated with the communist party rebuilt most of the film production infrastructure after 1945. While discussing this group, Roman Polanski concluded in his biography: "They included some extremely competent people, notably Aleksander Ford, a veteran party member, who was then an orthodox Stalinist.(…) The real power broker during the immediate postwar period was Ford himself, who established a small film empire of his own." The Polish United Workers Party (PUWP; in Polish, Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza, PZPR), was the governing political party in communist-ruled Poland from its creation (through a fusion of the communist Polish Workers Party and the left wing of the Polish Socialist Party) in December 1948 until the regimes... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Roman Polański Roman Polanski (born August 18, 1933) is a celebrated Polish film director and actor. ... Stalinism is a brand of political theory, and the political and economic system implemented by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union. ...

Ford did use his films to voice his discontent and expose the effects of the new regime upon Jews and the poor, as in his documentaries Street of the Young (1936) and the award-winning Eighth Day of the Week (1959). Both films were banned in Poland. He is perhaps most famous in Poland for directing the film The Teutonic Knights, based on a novel of the same name by Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz. Ford continued making films in Poland until a resurgence of anti-Semitism during the 1960s led him to spend two years in Israel. Ford later lived in Denmark and eventually settled in the United States. 1936 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1959 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Henryk Sienkiewicz Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz (pronounce: [γεnrik ɕenkieviʧ]) (May 5, 1846 - November 15, 1916) was a Polish novelist, one of the outstanding writers of the second half of the 19th century. ... The Eternal Jew: 1937 German poster. ... The 1960s, or The Sixties, in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ...

After 1969 Ford’s name ceased to exist in contemporary production as well as the historical analysis of Polish filmmaking. It was not supposed to be even mentioned. In The Black Book of Polish Censorship, which used to be the basic list for censors in Poland in 1970s, Ford was among other banned names. Censorship is the use of governmental power to control speech and other forms of human expression. ... This article provides extensive lists of events and significant personalities of the 1970s. ...

See also

• Cinema of Poland
• List of Polish language films

// Directors Józef Arkusz Stanisław Bareja Wojciech Has Agnieszka Holland Jerzy Hoffman Jerzy Kawalerowicz Krzysztof Kieślowski -- The Three Colors trilogy, The Decalogue Jan Jakub Kolski Kazimierz Kutz Andrzej Munk Marek Piwowski Roman Polański Ladislas Starevich Wladyslaw Starewicz Andrzej Wajda Krzysztof Zanussi Andrzej Zulawski Actors and actresses Eugeniusz... There are two lists of Polish language films: Organized alphabetically by Polish title Organized alphabetically by title of English release Alphabetical by Polish title Kanał Lotna Pokolenie Zemsta Ziemia Obiecana Alphabetical by title of English release See also Polish film school Categories: Lists of films | Polish films ...

External links

• Aleksander Ford at the Internet Movie Database