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Cinema’s Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood 2009

Eight hundred German filmmakers—actors, directors, producers, composers, editors and writers—fled the Nazis in the 1930s. Using voice‑overs, archival footage and film clips, the documentary first surveys Berlin’s vibrant 1920s cinema, then follows these exiles to Hollywood, where some found success while many struggled. It profiles figures such as Erich Pommer, Joseph May, Ernst Lubitsch, Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder and Peter Lorre. In America they housed new arrivals, raised money for further escapes, contributed to anti‑Nazi projects like *Casablanca*, and infused Hollywood with German Expressionist aesthetics that helped spawn film noir.

Eight hundred German filmmakers—actors, directors, producers, composers, editors and writers—fled the Nazis in the 1930s. Using voice‑overs, archival footage and film clips, the documentary first surveys Berlin’s vibrant 1920s cinema, then follows these exiles to Hollywood, where some found success while many struggled. It profiles figures such as Erich Pommer, Joseph May, Ernst Lubitsch, Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder and Peter Lorre. In America they housed new arrivals, raised money for further escapes, contributed to anti‑Nazi projects like *Casablanca*, and infused Hollywood with German Expressionist aesthetics that helped spawn film noir.

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