Henryk Szaro | |
Birth Date: | 23 October 1900 |
Birth Place: | Warsaw, Russian Empire |
Death Date: | 8 August 1942 |
Death Place: | Warsaw, Occupied Poland |
Othername: | Henoch Szapiro |
Occupation: | Film director Screenwriter |
Yearsactive: | 1925–1939 |
Henryk Szaro (1900 – 1942) was a Polish screenwriter and film director. He was born Henoch Szapiro, of Jewish background. He became a leading Polish director of the late 1920 and 1930s. Szaro was killed in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942 during the German Occupation of Poland in the Second World War.[1]