title: Monja Danischewsky
text: # Monja Danischewsky
  
  Monja Danischewsky (28 April 1911 – 16 October 1994) was a British producer and writer, born in Archangel into a Russian-Jewish family who left Russia for England in 1919 and who produced and wrote the films Topkapi and Rockets Galore! (1957) and others.
  
  ## Biography
  
  ### Early life
  
  Monja Danischewsky's family left Russia for Great Britain in 1919.
  
  ### Career
  
  He started out with various publicity jobs, then to Ealing Studios as publicity director in 1938 and occasional writer. Switched to producer 1949; became independent producer The Galloping Major (1951); returned as producer/writer in mid-1950s and continued briefly after Ealing ended; Rockets Galore (1958) and The Battle of the Sexes (1959). Autobiography, 'White Russian, Red Face', 1966.
  
  ## Filmography
  
  ### As writer
  
  * Undercover (1943)
  * Bitter Springs (1950)
  * The Galloping Major (1951)
  * Meet Mr. Lucifer (1953)
  * The Love Lottery (1954) (additional dialogue and scenes)
  * Rockets Galore! (1957)
  * The Battle of the Sexes (1959)
  * Two and Two Make Six (1962)
  * Topkapi (1964) (screenplay)
  * Mister Moses (1965)
  * Avalanche (1969) (as John Danischewsky)
  * That Lucky Touch (1975) (adaptation)
  
  ### As producer
  
  * Whisky Galore! (1949) (associate producer)
  * The Galloping Major (1951)
  * Meet Mr. Lucifer (1953)
  * The Love Lottery (1954)
  * The Battle of the Sexes (1959)
  * Two and Two Make Six (1962) (producer)
  * Avalanche (1969) (producer) (as John Danischewsky)
  * Run Wild, Run Freedom (1969)
  
  ## Published works
  
  * White Russian, Red Face (Gollancz, 1966)
  * Out of My Mind (Michael Joseph, 1972)
  * short memoir by Danischewsky of Barnett Freedman, in Emma Mason (ed.), Tales of Barnett Freedman (Bread and Butter Press, 2020)
  