Alexander Ramati
Alexander Ramati (December 20, 1921 – February 18, 2006), born David Solomonovich Grinberg, was a Polish writer and film director.
Alexander Ramati
- Full name
- דוד גרינברג.
- Born
- 1921. · Brest.
- Died
- 2006. · Montreux.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom and Soviet Union.
- Occupation
- writer, screenwriter, film producer, journalist, director and actor.
- Languages
- Polish and English.
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Alexander Ramati (December 20, 1921 – February 18, 2006), born David Solomonovich Grinberg, was a Polish writer and film director.
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Alexander Ramati (1921–2006) was a Soviet and British actor, director and film director, among other activities. Born דוד גרינברג in Brest, the actor died in Montreux. Languages used include English and Polish.
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Alexander Ramati was born in Brest, Belarus, then part of Poland, into a Jewish family. During World War II he worked as a war journalist. He entered Assisi with the Allied forces in June 1944, and there he first met Rufino Niccacci. Later he interviewed him and wrote The Assisi Underground, published in 1978. In 1985 he directed a film adaptation of the book. In 1985 he wrote And the Violins Stopped Playing: A Story of the Gypsy Holocaust, which he also adapted to a movie, in 1988. He died in Montreux, Switzerland.
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Selected filmography
• The Desperate Ones (1967) • The Assisi Underground (1985) • And the Violins Stopped Playing (1988)
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Alexander Ramati is recorded with the occupation film producer. Recorded as writer, screenwriter, film producer, journalist and director. Recorded at birth as דוד גרינברג.
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2006
Alexander Ramati died on 18 February 2006.
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- 1.V.Glazov Jack Grinberg. Oil tycoon from Brest-on-Bug , Brestskiy Kurier, October 15, 2014.
- 2.Aili McConnon, Andres McConnon, Road to Valour: Gino Bartali: Tour de France Legend and Italy's Secret World, Hachette UK, June 28, 2012.
- 3.Google.com
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- Beyond the Mountains, also published as The Desperate Ones (novel) (1958)
- The Assisi Underground (1978)
- And the Violins Stopped Playing: A Story of the Gypsy Holocaust (1986)
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