Alexandre Ryder

{{Short description|Polish-born French film director}} {{more citations needed|date=May 2019}} {{Infobox person | name = Alexandre Ryder | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 13 August 1891 | birth_place = Będzin, Poland | death_date = 25 August 1966 | death_place = Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France | occupation = Film director, screenwriter | years_active = 1920—1950 }}

'''Alexandre Ryder''' (1891–1966) was a Polish-born French film director best known for his crime drama films of the 1920s and 1930s.

He directed some 20 films between 1920 and 1950.

His 1940 film {{lang|fr|Après Mein Kampf mes crimes}} (''My Crimes after Mein Kampf'') was a propaganda film directed against Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler's policies. Germany had invaded Poland, Ryder's homeland, a year earlier in 1939.

==Selected filmography== * ''The Woman with Closed Eyes'' (1926) * ''The Criminal'' (1926) * ''Buridan's Donkey'' (1932) * ''Mirages'' (1938)

== External links == *{{IMDb name|0753085}}

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