Michel Safra

Michel Safra was a Russian-born French film producer. He was born in the Ukrainian city of Kiev, then part of the Russian Empire. After working in the German cinema for a decade during the silent era, during the early 1930s he began producing films in the French film industry. In 1938 he established the production and distribution company DisCina with André Paulvé and produced around thirty films until his death in 1967.