Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood (2009)
1h 57m
Running Time
January 1, 2009Release Date
Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood (2009)
1h 57m
Running Time
January 1, 2009Release Date
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Marlene Dietrich
Self (archive footage)
Sigourney Weaver
Narrator
Hedy Lamarr
Self (archive footage)
Scott Subiono
Hans Salter
Elsa Lanchester
Self (archive footage)
Sewell Whitney
Reporter / Bertolt Brecht
Peter Lorre
Self (archive footage)
Scott Beehner
Henry Koster
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Wiki.
Exils: from Hitler to Hollywood (Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood) is an American documentary by Karen Thomas from 2006.