Victor Vicas on AllMovie

Director/screenwriter Victor Vicas was born in Moscow, but spent much of his youth in France. During the 1930s, he became an assistant cameraman. Vicas served in the French army during WWII. He was captured and interred at a German POW camp from which he escaped and fled to the United States. He first found work as a cinematographer, but became a director in the late '50s. Eventually he returned to Europe to direct a few more feature films. Vicas ended his career working in television.