1. Leo Birinski was a playwright, screenwriter and director.
15 Facts About Leo Birinski
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Leo Birinski worked in Austria-Hungary, Germany and in the United States.
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Leo Birinski was probably born on June 8,1884, in Lysianka, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire.
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Leo Birinski occasionally presented this information in official documents, though it is impossible to confirm because the local birth records for Lysianka were not preserved.
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Leo Birinski's father, Hersch Gottesmann, was born in Borschiv in eastern Galicia and was a salesman.
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Leo Birinski's mother, Carna, born Berinska or Birinska, was a tenant's daughter from Lysianka.
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Leo Birinski spent his childhood in Ukraine and Czernowitz, the capital city of the Austro-Hungarian province of Bukovina.
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Leo Birinski worked in a bookshop, turned to translating, and started to write by himself.
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In Germany, Leo Birinski appears to have married Jewish pianist Felicia Aschkenas, who born around 1902 in Warsaw.
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Around September 1927, Leo Birinski left for the USA; two years later, his wife followed him.
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Leo Birinski even listed the city of Bluefields in Nicaragua as his birthplace.
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Leo Birinski again took on the role of film director with Flirtation in 1934.
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The last known picture by Leo Birinski was the spy comedy, The Lady Has Plans, in 1942.
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The events of the last seven years of Leo Birinski's life are largely unknown.
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In 2009, Leo Birinski's relatives living in Israel and the United States were found.