Michel Safra Explained

Michel Safra
Birth Date:16 May 1899
Birth Place:Kiev, Russian Empire
Death Date:23 September 1967 (aged 68)
Death Place:Paris, France
Occupation:Producer
Yearsactive:1932–1967 (film)

Michel Safra (1899–1967) was a Russian-born French film producer. He was born in the Ukrainian city of Kiev, then part of the Russian Empire. After working in the German cinema for a decade during the silent era, during the early 1930s he began producing films in the French film industry.[1]

In 1938 he established the production and distribution company DisCina with André Paulvé and produced around thirty films until his death in 1967. He was part of a sizeable contingent of Russian-born figures working in the French film industry during the era.[2]

Selected filmography

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Notes and References

  1. Crisp p.168
  2. Crisp p.168