Lew Rywin

Lew Rywin (born 10 November 1945 in a Nizhnyeye Alkeyevo, USSR) is a Polish film producer associated with Heritage Films (est. 1991). He has also been a member of the State Council of Radio and Television and worked in an agency, Poltel, and producing for Polish state-run TV.

He participated in producing films such as Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List, Roman Polański's The Pianist, Jan Jakub Kolski's Pornografia and Marek Brodzki's The Hexer, based on The Witcher books by Andrzej Sapkowski. His last film was never produced. It was about the life of Holocaust survivor Herman Rosenblat (with producers Harris Salomon and Abi Sirokh). The film was titled Love is a Survivor and was later changed to The Flower of the Fence. Altogether, he has served in a producer role in the making of 27 movies.

In 2002, he was a key figure in the Rywin affair, a major corruption scandal in Poland.

Filmography 1990: Europa Europa 1993: Schindler's List 1993: 1995: 1995: Holy Week (film) 1996: 1996: 1997: An Air So Pure (Executive Producer) 1997: Sara 1997: Bastard 1997–2000: 13 posterunek 1998: 1999: 1999: Aimée & Jaguar 1999: Voyages 1999: Jakob the Liar 1999: Sir Thaddeus 2000: Proof of Life 2001: The Hexer 2001: Pamiętam 2002: The Pianist 2003: Pornografia

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