# Alexandre Ryder

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{{Short description|Polish-born French film director}}
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{{Infobox person
| name                    = Alexandre Ryder
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| birth_date              = 13 August 1891 
| birth_place             = [Będzin](/source/B%C4%99dzin), [Poland](/source/Poland)
| death_date              = 25 August 1966
| death_place             = [Saint-Germain-en-Laye](/source/Saint-Germain-en-Laye), [France](/source/France)
| occupation              = [Film director](/source/Film_director), [screenwriter](/source/screenwriter)
| years_active            = 1920—1950 
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'''Alexandre Ryder''' (1891–1966) was a [Polish](/source/Poland)-born [French](/source/France) [film director](/source/film_director) best known for his [crime](/source/crime) [drama film](/source/drama_film)s of the 1920s and 1930s.

He directed some 20 films between 1920 and 1950.

His 1940 film {{lang|fr|[Après Mein Kampf mes crimes](/source/Apr%C3%A8s_Mein_Kampf_mes_crimes)}} (''My Crimes after Mein Kampf'') was a propaganda film directed against [Nazi Germany](/source/Nazi_Germany) and [Adolf Hitler](/source/Adolf_Hitler)'s policies. Germany had [invaded Poland](/source/invasion_of_Poland_(1939)), Ryder's homeland, a year earlier in 1939.

==Selected filmography==
* ''[The Woman with Closed Eyes](/source/The_Woman_with_Closed_Eyes)'' (1926)
* ''[The Criminal](/source/The_Criminal_(1926_film))'' (1926)
* ''[Buridan's Donkey](/source/Buridan's_Donkey_(film))'' (1932)
* ''[Mirages](/source/Mirages_(1938_film))'' (1938)

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

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Category:Polish film directors
Category:French film directors
Category:Silent film directors
Category:French male screenwriters
Category:20th-century French screenwriters
Category:French people of Polish descent
Category:1891 births
Category:1966 deaths
Category:People from Będzin
Category:20th-century French male writers
Category:Emigrants from Austria-Hungary to France

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