- Birthday
- 1917-05-01
- Deathday
- 2003-07-22
- Place of Birth
- Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland
Serge Silberman
ProductionBiography
Serge Silberman (1 May 1917 – 22 July 2003) was a French film producer. Silberman was born in Łódź, then a part of the Regency Kingdom of Poland in a Jewish family. During World War II, Silberman survived Nazi concentration camps and eventually settled in Paris. One of his first works as a film producer was Jean-Pierre Melville's 1955 film Bob the Gambler, a precursor to the French New Wave movement. Silberman's most notable collaborations were with the surrealist film director Luis Buñuel. The pair, along with screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière, who Silberman introduced to Buñuel, worked tog...