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  • Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood (2009)
  • TV Movie | 90 min | Documentary
Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood (2009)
TV Movie | 90 min | Documentary

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, ...See moreEight 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. Written by See less
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Jan 1, 2009 (United States)

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29 cast members
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Sigourney Weaver
Narrator (voice) Narrator (voice)   See fewer
Scott Subiono
Hans Salter (voice) Hans Salter (voice)   See fewer
Sewell Whitney
Reporter / Bertolt Brecht (voice) Reporter / Bertolt Brecht (voice)   See fewer
Scott Beehner
Henry Koster (voice) Henry Koster (voice)   See fewer
George Alvarez
Curt Siodmak (voice) Curt Siodmak (voice)   See fewer
Josh Nathan
Frederick Hollander (voice) Frederick Hollander (voice)   See fewer
Kristin Lindquist
Salka Viertel (voice) Salka Viertel (voice)   See fewer
Lynne Maclean
Boszi Sakall (voice) Boszi Sakall (voice)   See fewer
Robert Maffia
Erich Pommer (voice) Erich Pommer (voice)   See fewer
Vaughn Armstrong
Ernst Lubitsch (voice) Ernst Lubitsch (voice)   See fewer
Lesli Margherita
Kitty Koster (voice) Kitty Koster (voice)   See fewer
Raphael Sbarge
Translator (voice) Translator (voice)   See fewer
Kevin Fabian
Miklos Rozsa (voice) Miklos Rozsa (voice)   See fewer
Marlene Dietrich
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
Deanna Durbin
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
John Garfield
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
Paul Henreid
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
Henry Koster
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
Hedy Lamarr
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
Elsa Lanchester
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
Charles Laughton
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
Peter Lorre
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
Ernst Lubitsch
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
Josef A. Pasternack
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
S.Z. Sakall
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
Ann Sheridan
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
Lupita Tovar
Self - Interviewee (as Lupita Kohner) Self - Interviewee (as Lupita Kohner)   See fewer
Billy Wilder
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
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