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Erich Pommer. Erich Pommer (left) with Carl Zuckmayer and Emil Jannings (1929) Erich Pommer (20 July 1889 – 8 May 1966) was a German-born film producer and executive. Pommer was perhaps the most powerful person in the German and European film industries in the 1920s and early 1930s. [1]
Erich Pommer. Erich Pommer (* 20. Juli 1889 in Hildesheim; † 8. Mai 1966 in Los Angeles) war ein deutscher Filmproduzent, der zeitweise zu den mächtigsten Figuren der deutschen Filmindustrie zählte. Als Produzent von Filmen wie Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, Der letzte Mann, Metropolis und Der blaue Engel schrieb er Filmgeschichte.
Jun 17, 2021 · Erich Pommer, the chief executive of the German film production and distribution company Decla-Bioscop, accepted Carl Mayer and Hans Janowitz's script. Despite the writers' total lack of experience in film, Pommer shrewdly recognized the commercial potential of Caligari.
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Dec 2, 2008 · A genius producer and businessman on both sides of the Atlantic, Erich Pommer is the driving force of fifty years of German film history. In 1915, he founded Deutsche Eclair (Decla), a production ...
Erich Pommer. Producer: Metropolis. On November 1, 1895, the first public motion picture film presentation was projected at Berlin's Wintergarten with the "Bioscop" apparatus invented by Max Skladanowsky and Emil Skladanowsky. In December 1895, Auguste Lumière and Louis Lumière began exhibiting projected films to the paying public in Paris with their "Cinematographe," a portable camera ...
- July 20, 1889
- May 8, 1966
Erich Pommer (20 July 1889 – 8 May 1966) was a German-born film producer and executive. Pommer was perhaps the most powerful person in the German and European film industries in the 1920s and early 1930s. As producer, Erich Pommer was involved in the German Expressionist film movement during the silent era. As the head of production at Decla Film, Decla-Bioskop, and, from 1924 to 1926, at ...
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Running time. 92 minutes. Country. United Kingdom. Language. English. Vessel of Wrath is a 1938 British film directed by Erich Pommer, produced by Pommer, and starring Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester. It was based on the 1931 Somerset Maugham short story "The Vessel of Wrath". The film is also known as The Beachcomber in the US.
