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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.
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.
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Jun 17, 2021 · Wikipedia 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...
Biography. Trivia. IMDbPro. All topics. Erich Pommer (1889-1966) Producer. Writer. Director. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. 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.
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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.
The producer of Dr. Mabuse, Erich Pommer, saw the film as a depiction of the contemporary conflict between the liberal conservatives and the Marxist Spartacists in which the Mabuse character represented the Spartacists, yet another view saw populist themes in the film.
