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

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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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29 cast members

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Sigourney Weaver Self - Narrator (voice) Self - Narrator (voice) See fewer	Alien: Resurrection (1997)
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George Alvarez Self - Curt Siodmak (voice) Self - Curt Siodmak (voice) See fewer	Epic Movie (2007)
Josh Nathan Self - Frederick Hollander (voice) Self - Frederick Hollander (voice) See fewer	Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood (2009)
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Lynne Maclean Self - Boszi Sakall (voice) Self - Boszi Sakall (voice) See fewer	Scrubs (2001)
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Kevin Fabian Self - Miklos Rozsa (voice) Self - Miklos Rozsa (voice) See fewer	Perry Mason (2020)
Marlene Dietrich Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Deanna Durbin Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	It's a Date (1940)
John Garfield Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Paul Henreid Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Casablanca (1942)
Adolf Hitler Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Triumph of the Will (1935)
Henry Koster Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Harvey (1950)
Hedy Lamarr Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Strange Woman (1946)
Elsa Lanchester Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Charles Laughton Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Peter Lorre Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Ernst Lubitsch Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Josef A. Pasternack Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The King Steps Out (1936)
S.Z. Sakall Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Casablanca (1942)
Ann Sheridan Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Kings Row (1942)
Lupita Tovar Self - Interviewee (as Lupita Kohner) Self - Interviewee (as Lupita Kohner) See fewer	Resurrección (1943)
Billy Wilder Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Apartment (1960)