Alexandre Ryder (1891–1966) was a
Polish
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* Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe
* Polish language
* Poles
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-born
French film director best known for his
crime
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drama film
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s of the 1920s and 1930s.
He directed some 20 films between 1920 and 1950.
His 1940 film ''
Après Mein Kampf mes crimes'' (''My Crimes after Mein Kampf'') was a propaganda film directed against
Nazi Germany
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and
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 188930 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Nazi Germany, Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his death in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the le ...
's policies. Germany had
invaded Poland, Ryder's homeland, a year earlier in 1939.
Selected filmography
* ''
The Woman with Closed Eyes'' (1926)
* ''
The Criminal'' (1926)
* ''
Buridan's Donkey'' (1932)
* ''
Mirages'' (1938)
External links
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Polish film directors
French film directors
Silent film directors
French male screenwriters
20th-century French screenwriters
French people of Polish descent
1891 births
1966 deaths
People from Będzin
20th-century French male writers
Austro-Hungarian emigrants to France
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