Leon FORBERT, also known as Leo FORBERT, is a Polish photographer, producer, director and designer of film sets in the Yedish language, whose studio was located at 11 Wierzbowa Street in Warsaw. Léon FORBERT was born into a Jewish family on February 6, 1880 in Płock. Founder of the "Foto Forbert" photo studio at the beginning of the 20th century, he joined forces after the war with Henryk BOJM (Yehiel BOJM) to also devote himself to cinema by creating the "Leo-Film" film studio. "The Vow" ( Yid. Ktijes Chaf ) a Polish-American feature film, whose screenplay, in Yiddish, was the work of his partner Henryk BOJM, was released in 1924. The main roles are played by Ester Rachel KAMINSKA, today named the "mother of Jewish theater" and her daughter Ida (also one of the greatest actresses of the Jewish scene). The studio will produce or collaborate on 2 films per year on average. However, the stock market crash of 1929 and the mixed success of "W lasach polskich" (In Polish forests) precipitated bankruptcy. In 1934, the photo studio was placed in compulsory liquidation, but immediately bought by its partner Henryk BOJM, and then took the name of FOTO BOJM-FORBERT. In 1937, FORBERT and BOJM shot a remake of their first film "Le Voeu" but it did not meet with the same success. Léon FORBERT died the following year, July 21, 1938. Henryk BOJM and FORBERT's sons, Adolf and Władysław, manage the photo studio. However during the 2WW, the studio was placed under the direction of a certain BAUM. Henryk BOJM and his son Irael dies in the Warsaw ghetto. Adolf FORBERT (1911-1992) and his brother Władysław FORBERT (1915-2001), fled to the Soviet occupation zone. They will return to Poland where they will brilliantly pursue their careers in photography, production and direction of photography. They will both receive the medal of the Order of Polonia Restituta, the second highest Polish state decoration.