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Lazar Wechsler was born on 28 July 1896 in Piotrków, Poland, Russian Empire [now Piotrków Trybunalski, Lódzkie, Poland]. He was a producer and director, known for So lebt China (1936), Die mißbrauchten Liebesbriefe (1940) and Feind im Blut (1931).
- Producer, Director, Writer
- July 28, 1896
- Lazar Wechsler
- August 8, 1981
Feb 1, 2024 · When the young Lazar Wechsler, originally from Russian Poland, was travelling through Switzerland with his mother and brother when the First World War broke out, he did not yet know that he would become a central figure in Swiss cinema in the decades that followed.
Lazar Linsor Wechsler (* 28. Juni 1896 in Petrikau, Russisch-Polen, heute Polen; † 8. August 1981 in Zürich) war ein polnisch- und österreichischstämmiger Filmproduzent. Er war die zentrale Figur des Schweizer Kinos während seiner Frühphase in den 1930er-Jahren und seiner Blütezeit in den 1940er-Jahren.
Apr 21, 2024 · Switzerland’s oldest surviving film company has an eventful past that has taken it all the way to Hollywood. Founded by Jewish immigrant Lazar Wechsler, the company notched up its greatest successes from the 1930s to the mid-1950s, producing some of the classics of Swiss film history.
Jan 7, 2024 · Lazar Wechsler träumt gleich gross. In den 1930er und 1940er Jahren stellen sich die Filme der Praesens unter der Bedrohung durch Hitler-Deutschland in den Dienst der sogenannten Geistigen...
Lazar Wechsler is known as an Producer, Director, Editor, and Writer. Some of his work includes It Happened in Broad Daylight, The Search, The Last Chance, Heidi, Misery and Fortune of Woman, Die missbrauchten Liebesbriefe, Sergeant Studer, and Gilberte de Courgenay.
The company Praesens-Film, which was founded in 1924 by Jewish immigrant Lazar Wechsler and Swiss aviation pioneer Walter Mittelholzer, specialised from the outset in advertising films, a format which was little known in Switzerland at the time.
