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Douglas Sirk (born Hans Detlef Sierck; 26 April 1897 – 14 January 1987) was a German film director best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s. [1] However, he also directed comedies, westerns, and war films. [2] Sirk started his career in Germany as a stage and screen director, but he left for Hollywood in 1937 after his ...
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Douglas Sirk. Director: The Final Chord. Film director Douglas Sirk, whose reputation blossomed in the generation after his 1959 retirement from Hollywood filmmaking, was born Hans Detlef Sierck on April 26, 1897, in Hamburg, Germany, to a journalist.
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Apr 22, 2024 · Douglas Sirk (born April 26, 1900, Hamburg, Germany—died January 14, 1987, Lugano, Switzerland) was a German-born American film director whose extremely popular melodramas offered cynical visions of American values. Though Sirk also directed comedies, westerns, and war films, he was most noted for his complicated family melodramas that showed ...
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- Zu neuen Ufern (1937) Sirk’s most interesting film for UFA (the leading German studio of its day used by the Nazis for its propaganda films) is a tale of a woman brought down by the inadequacy of men around her.
- La Habanera (1937) Zarah Leander suffers again in her second film with Sirk, but here her character is much stronger – she plays a Swedish woman who, on holiday in Puerto Rico, runs off the ship to stay in the exotic locale to become the wife of a wealthy landowner.
- Summer Storm (1944) Before this adaptation of Chekhov’s 1884 novel The Shooting Party, Linda Darnell was valued for her beauty rather than her acting ability, but her role here as Olga, a peasant girl who ruins the lives of three men in her quest for wealth and social standing, relaunched her career.
- Shockproof (1949) While a film directed by Sirk and scripted by Sam Fuller (just before he kickstarted his own directing career with the same year’s I Shot Jesse James) should have critics cheering, Shockproof, though a superior noir with excellent performances, isn’t the masterpiece it should be.
Apr 26, 2021 · A beginner’s path through the Technicolor melodramas of Douglas Sirk, a German-born director who worked in Hollywood’s golden age. Learn about his distinctive style, themes and influences, and discover his best films, from All That Heaven Allows (1955) to Shockproof (1949).
Dec 21, 2015 · Douglas Sirk, whose Hollywood career ran from 1943 to 1959, may be the most intellectual filmmaker ever to work in Hollywood (at least, he’d run Terrence Malick, who translated Heidegger, a ...
Apr 26, 2013 · Douglas Sirk is in the air again of late. Our friends at BAMcinematek recently put on a Sirk & Hudson retrospective and the filmmaker was born today on April, 26 in 1897 (he was 89 a the time of ...
