Marek Majer Libkow. Producent-pasjonat
Marek Majer Libkow. Producer with a Passion

Summary/Abstract: Marek Libkow (b. 1890, Widujce; d. 1948, New York) was the most ambitious film producer of Polish cinema in the interwar period. He was born into a Jewish family. He gained his first film-making experience in the Russian cinematography. He moved to Poland in the period of the World War I. Since 1922 he worked successively in companies established by himself. He mainly produced films showing the Polish struggle for independence: „Early Spring”, „Exile to Siberia”, „1914” – directed by Henryk Szaro, and „Young Forest”, „The Rose”, „Kościuszko at Racławice” – directed by Józef Lejtes. He also produced a religious film „Beneath Thy Protection” – the biggest blockbuster of the interwar period. Following the outbreak of World War II Libkow emigrated to the USA. He tried to interest American film producers in events taking place in occupied Poland. In Hollywood he was a consultant for the film „None Shall Escape” (1944) – the first film which shows Jews being murdered by the Germans. His independent attempts at producing both in the Hollywood and in New York brought no effects.

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