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- Birth nameEugenio Gregorio Polgovsky Ezcurra
- Eugenio Polgovsky was born on June 29, 1977 in Mexico City, Mexico. He was a cinematographer and director, known for The Inheritors (2008), Tropico de cancer (2004) and Resurrección (2016). He died on August 11, 2017 in London, England, UK.
- He graduated from Mexico's Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica, a state-funded film school, with a bachelor's degree in film directing and cinematography.
- His father was the son of a Russian émigré who had fled the 1917 revolution. His mother was herself an émigré who left Argentina after the 1976 military coup that launched the bloody "dirty war".
- He was a prominent Mexican documentary filmmaker. His most acclaimed movies document the impoverished indigenous population of Mexico being treated as third-class citizens.
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