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Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood

01 Jan 2009
  • United States of America
117 mins
6
1 votes
  • TV Movie
  • Documentary
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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.
  • Sigourney Weaver

    as Narrator (voice)
  • Marlene Dietrich

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Hedy Lamarr

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Elsa Lanchester

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Peter Lorre

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Billy Wilder

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Fritz Lang

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Lupita Tovar

    as Self - Interviewee
  • Fred Zinnemann

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Peter Viertel

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Rudi Fehr

    as Self (archive footage)

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