Exils: de Hitler à Hollywood (subtitled) - 9/9

Documentary on the German and Austrian, mostly Jewish, immigration to Hollywood in the 1930's and 1940's. If you can get past the annoyingly sinister voice doing the voiceover narration, this is a very interesting documentary.

The following film personalities are mentioned (in no particular order):


Directors:

Fritz Lang, Robert Siodmak, Fred Zinnemann,
Robert Wiene, Joe May, Ernst Lubitsch, Kurt Siodmak, Edgar G. Ullmer, Joseph Von Sternberg, Henry Koster, John Huston, Michael Curtiz, Robert Florey, Billy Wilder.


Actors:

Peter Lorre, Hedy Lamarr, S.Z. Sakall, Paul Henreid, Conrad Veidt, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings, Lupita & Paul Kohner, Spencer Tracy, Ilka Grüning, Ludwig Stössel, Wolfgang Zilzer, Curt Bois, Trude Berliner, Dalio, Madeleine LeBeau, Hans von Twardowski, Lotte Palfi, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis.


Composers:

Franz Waxman, Friedrich Hollaender, Hans Salter, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Werner R. Heymann, Arthur Rubinstein, Tchaikovsky, Miklós Rózsa.

Writers:

Salka Viertel, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Siodmak.


Cinematographers: Rudolph Maté.


Films:

Bride of Frankenstein, Adventures of Robin Hood, Ninotchka, Double Indemnity, High Noon, Some Like It Hot, Casablanca, Metropolis, Das Cabinet Des Dr. Caligari, Menschen Am Sonntag, Asphalt, Der Blaue Engel, M, Fury, Mr Moto, The Maltese Falcon, Murders in the Rue Morgue, Black Cat, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, To be or not to be, Confessions of a Nazi Spy, The Hitler Gang, The Seventh Cross, The Killers, Death Mills, A Foreign Affair, The Big Heat, Some Like it Hot.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Foreign
• Affair
• Billy
• Wilder
• Marlene
• Dietrich
• Fritz
• Lang
• Big
• Heat
• Peter
• Viertel
• Some
• Like
• It
• Hot
• Marilyn
• Monroe
• Tony
• Curtis
• Jack
• Lemmon
• Oscars
• Academy
• Awards
• Bertolt
• Brecht
• Lorre

[sixsticks]

As you already know I enjoyed this documentary very much and was so moved by the individual stories of my favorite films, actors, directors and writers. So many of the movies and actors performances mentioned, will take on a whole new meaning the next time I watch them. I'll have to watch 'Casablanca' again soon for sure. Thanks so much for all your hard work and the tremendous effort it must of taken to subtitle the orginal! much appreciated by this viewer :)

[grassisbluer]

Hi Steven, thanks for the comment, and I agree with you: this documentary also gave me a new perspective on classics I thought I knew all about. My only regret about this film is that it really lacked emphasis on the composers (Steiner, Waxman, Korngold et al) whose contributions were really so fundamental to Hollywood films then (and now!)

[an2202na]

grazie mille!

really thank you sooooo much for putting all these documentaries up!

[SariaMew456]

Thank you so incredibly much for putting this up - and subtitling it! That must have been a lot of work! It was intensely fascinating and informative, I know I never would've learned so much about that group otherwise. (They just don't show documentaries like that here. Not unless they made a summer blockbuster about it first!)

Thank you again!

[MichaSchlechtriem]

I absolutely agree with grassisbluer.

But many, many thanks for this!

Michael