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Cinema’s Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood (TV)

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Original title

Cinema’s Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood

Year

2009

Running time

90 min.

Country

United States

Director

Karen Thomas

Screenwriter

Karen Thomas

Cast

Music

Peter Rodgers Melnick

Cinematography

Joan Churchill, Emil Fischhaber

Producer

Deutsche Kinemathek für Film und Fernsehen, Film Odyssey, Institut National de l'Audiovisuel, Thirteen/WNET, Turner Entertainment

Genre

Documentary | Movie Documentary. Historical. Nazism. TV Movie

Synopsis

Eight hundred German filmmakers (cast and crew) fled the Nazis in the 1930s. The film uses voice-overs, archival footage, and film clips to examine Berlin's vital filmmaking in the 1920s; then it follows a producers, directors, composers, editors, writers, and actors to Hollywood: some succeeded and many found no work. Among those profiled are Erich Pommer, Joseph May, Ernst Lubitsch, Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder, and Peter Lorre. Once in Hollywood, these exiles helped each other, housed new arrivals, and raised money so others could escape. Some worked on anti-Nazi films, like Casablanca. The themes and lighting of German Expressionism gave rise in Hollywood to film noir.

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Cinema’s Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood (TV)

2009

Karen Thomas

6.8

(28)