The Sphinx (film studio)
The Sphinx (Warsaw Sphynx Society) is a Polish film company founded by Alexander Hertz. In the years 1911-1936 several dozens of films were produced.
In 1909, Alexander Hertz and Alfred Niemirski, Józef Koerner and M. Zuker founded the Warsaw Sphynx Society. It was the representative of the French film company Société Pathé Frères. In the same year he opened a cinema called "Sfinks" on Marszałkowska street 116. In November 1909, Jan Skarbek-Malczewski filmed a flight of aeroplan for the "Sphinx" in Warsaw.
In 1911, Alexander Hertz launched a film studio under the same name. The first feature film produced by Hertz's label was "Meir Ezofowicz" by Eliza Orzeszkowa's novel. After the death of Alexander Hertz in 1928, Henryk Finkelstein and Alexander's brother, Michal Hertz, were employed by the studio's management.
In 1914, the 18-year-old Apolonia Chałupiec debuted in the film The Slave of the Senses, which became famous under the pseudonym Poli Negri.
The most famous "Sphynx" films are: Bibliography
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