Erwin Leiser was born in Berlin in 1923 and left Germany after the November-Pogrom in 1938. He came to Sweden, studied at the university of Lund and became a journalist and writer. Since 1959 he has mainly worked as a director and author of documentary films. His first film, "Mein Kampf" (1960) was an international success and has been shown in a hundred countries. Since 1961 he has been living in Zurich, where most of his later films have been produced for cinemas and television networks in Europe, USA, Canada and Asia. His most well-known films are "Mein Kampf" (1960), "Eichmann und das dritte Reich" (1961), "Wähle das Leben" (1963), "Zum Beispiel Fritz Lang" (1968), "Die Mitläufer" (1985), "Pimpf war jeder" (1993), "Feindbilder" (1995), "Otto John: Eine deutsche Geschichte" (1995) and "Zehn Brüder sind wir gewesen" (TV, 1995). Erwin Leiser died on August 22, 1996.

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