Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood

Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood

🎞️ Movie 90 min US
โ˜… 7.8 /10 2009

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

Sigourney Weaver
Sigourney Weaver
Narrator
Scott Subiono
Scott Subiono
Hans Salter
Sewell Whitney
Sewell Whitney
Reporter
Sewell Whitney
Sewell Whitney
Bertolt Brecht
Scott Beehner
Scott Beehner
Henry Koster
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George Alvarez
Curt Siodmak
Kristin Lindquist
Kristin Lindquist
Salka Viertel
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Lynne Maclean
Boszi Sakall
Robert Maffia
Robert Maffia
Erich Pommer
Vaughn Armstrong
Vaughn Armstrong
Ernst Lubitsch
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Peter Melnick
Composer
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Joan Churchill
Cinematographer
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Emil Fischhaber
Cinematographer