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Jan 1, 2009 · Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood: Directed by Karen Thomas. With Sigourney Weaver, Scott Subiono, Sewell Whitney, Scott Beehner. Eight hundred German filmmakers (cast and crew) fled the Nazis in the 1930s.
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About the Film. CINEMA’S EXILES: FROM HITLER TO HOLLYWOOD traces the experiences of the Jews who fled Nazi Germany and took refuge in Hollywood, and examines their impact on both the German and ...
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Cinema’s Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood. When Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1933, one of his earliest actions was to ban Jews from working in that country’s storied film industry. Men and women who had created landmarks of movie history fled their homeland in the ensuing months and years. More than 800 film professionals ...
Dec 2, 2008 · CINEMA’S EXILES: FROM HITLER TO HOLLYWOOD traces the experiences of the exiles who took refuge in Hollywood, and examines their impact on both the German and the American cinemas.
Apr 12, 2016 · Between the years 1933 and 1939, over 800 Jewish members of the German film industry would flee the Nazis and make their way to Hollywood. Adapting to a new culture and homeland, they would soon have a massive impact on American cinema through their influence on genres ranging from comedy, horror, drama and film noir.
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Jan 3, 2009 · A new PBS documentary, “Cinema’s Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood,” which airs at 8 tonight on KCET, charts the contributions these emigres -- many of them secular Jews -- made in their ...
Narrated by actress Sigourney Weaver, Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood is an enlightening documentary that traces the path of these German exiles who sought to bring their substantial talents to the burgeoning American film industry. Some, such as directors Fritz Lang and Billy Wilder, composer Franz Waxman and actors Hedy Lamarr and ...
