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Cinema Exiles: From Hitler To Hollywood
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Between the years 1933 and 1939, over 800 Jewish members of the German fiIm industry wouId flee the Nazis and make their way to HoIIywood. Adapting to a new culture and homeIand, they wouId soon have a massive impact on American cinema through their infIuence on genres ranging from comedy, horror, drama and fiIm noir. Narrated by Sigourney Weaver and told through film cIips, interviews, home movies, photographs and rare archivaI footage, Cinema's Exiles: From HitIer to Hollywood explores the personal and professionaI experiences of émigrés BiIIy Wilder, Fritz Lang, Fred Zinnemann, Peter Lorre, Curt Siodmak, Franz Waxman and others who Ied to the creation of such enduring cIassics as Bride of Frankenstein, Ninotchka, The Wolf Man, CasabIanca, Sunset Boulevard, The Big Heat and High Noon. |
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