Marin Karmitz

Marin Karmitz born 7 October 1938 is a RomanianFrench businessman whose career has spanned the French film industry including director producer film distributor and operator of a chain of cinemas He comes from an assimilated JewishRomanian family and emigrated to France in 1948 Karmitz attended film school at IDHEC renamed La Fémis and worked as a director of photography after graduating Karmitz founded MK2 a production company and movie theater chain which has specialized in creating distributing and screening independent or auteurist cinema including short films In 2005 he turned over leadership of the MK2 company and its theaters to his son Nathanaël Description above from the Wikipedia article Marin Karmitz licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia