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]