Harry R. Sokal

Harry R Sokal also Henry R Sokal born February 20 1898 in Craiova and died March 7 1979 in Munich was a German film producer of Romanian origin and of the Jewish faith Harry Sokal produced 22 films between 1926 and 1977 He specialized in the production of films related to the mountain mainly those of Arnold Fanck and Leni Riefenstahl After the National Socialists seized power in 1933 he emigrated to England before settling in France in 1937 In 1941 he moved to the United States where he worked for the small production company Monogram before return to Germany in 1949 where he founded the production company Henry SokalFilm He produced his first postwar work Föhn which was a remake of his greatest success The White Inferno of Piz Palü Until his death he worked with the Munich studios Bavaria Filmstudios located in Grünwald His most famous postwar film was The Hero and the Soldier in 1958 with Otto Wilhelm Fischer based on the comedy by George Bernard Shaw Harry Sokal was married to actress Charlotte Kerr He died in 1979 and is buried in Grünwald