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Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood

01/01/2009

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1hr 57min

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TV Movie

,Documentary

STORY

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 producer, 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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Sigourney Weaver
  • Marlene Dietrich
  • Hedy Lamarr
  • Elsa Lanchester
  • Peter Lorre

    INFORMATION

      Production Companies

    • Deutsche Kinemathek für Film und Fernsehen

      Production Countries

    • United States of America

    LANGUAGES

    • English

    Cast

    Sigourney Weaver

    Narrator (voice)

    Marlene Dietrich

    Self (archive footage)

    Hedy Lamarr

    Self (archive footage)

    Elsa Lanchester

    Self (archive footage)

    Peter Lorre

    Self (archive footage)

    Lupita Tovar

    Self - Interviewee

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