Dark Mirror (1946)

Born in Paris, France. A jewish emigré to the US. The Pozner family fled Soviet Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution, and Vladimir Pozner became a Communist sympathizer while living in Europe. He was chief engineer of the European branch of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Paris in 1938. He fought in the French army until its defeat in 1940, and then moved to the United States with his French wife and son in 1941. In 1943 he headed the Russian Section of the film department of the U.S. War Department. During World War II he spied for Soviet intelligence while being employed by the United States Government. Pozner and his family moved to Berlin and later to Moscow in the early 1950s. Pozner's son, Vladimir Vladimirovich Pozner, worked for Radio Moscow and became a spokesman for the Institute on the United States and Canada, a Soviet think tank. He was also a frequent guest on American television in the 1980s and co-hosted an MSNBC cable TV show with Phil Donahue after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Pozner Sr.'s film writing credits include THE CONSPIRATORS (1944, Warner Bros.), THE DARK MIRROR (1946, Universal), and ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST (1948, Universal). From 1949, he wrote films for production in Europe. However, in 1957, he collaborated on the screenplay of BITTER VICTORY for Columbia.  Nominated for Writing (Original Story) 1946: DARK MIRROR 1 nomination