Elina Löwensohn

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11 July 1966, Bucharest, Romania

Elina Löwensohn was born on July 11, 1966 in Bucharest, Romania. She is an actress and writer, known for Schindler's List (1993), Un long dimanche de fiançailles (2004) and Nadja (1994).

[on acting] It's really simply the script, and wishing to plunge myself in the unique universe of an auteur, if that universe exists. [2012]

[on Hal Hartley] He saw me in some plays, we did Theory of Achievement (1991), and that was the first film I ever did. And then I did Simple...Show more »

[on Hal Hartley] He saw me in some plays, we did Theory of Achievement (1991), and that was the first film I ever did. And then I did Simple Men (1992). So Hal is my beginning...I admire what he is about, and I'm extremely grateful to have begun with someone like him - because at the time of course, we never realise when we do a project if it's going to be written in history or not. But both him and Michael Almereyda, these films - even though Nadja (1994) is not known in France, it has become a real cult film - represent a period of time in cinema that today almost is nonexistent. Or maybe it's existent with people like Guy Maddin, who are doing [films] in a similar way, inventing and having the freedom to invent and create cinema. [2012] Show less «