Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood
2009 · 117 MIN · IMDB 7.8 · 192 VOTES · DIR. Karen Thomas
Overview
Eight hundred German filmmakers (cast and crew) fled the Nazis in the 1930s. The film uses voice-overs, archival footage, and film clips to examine Berlin's vital filmmaking in the 1920s; then it follows a producer, directors, composers, editors, writers, and actors to Hollywood: some succeeded and many found no work. Among those profiled are Erich Pommer, Joseph May, Ernst Lubitsch, Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder, and Peter Lorre. Once in Hollywood, these exiles helped each other, housed new arrivals, and raised money so others could escape. Some worked on anti-Nazi films, like Casablanca. The themes and lighting of German Expressionism gave rise in Hollywood to film noir.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,673 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:02:31 FILM PROFESSIONALS FLED NAZI EUROPE FOR HOLLYWOOD.
00:07:39 "METROPOLIS" SHOWCASED THE WORLD-CLASS TALENT
00:12:51 AND ASPIRING FILMMAKERS
00:18:19 SHE LEFT FOR AMERICA THE NIGHT
00:25:13 ONE OF HIS FRIENDS HAD BEEN ARRESTED.
00:29:54 THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAD CREATED
00:34:52 DIRECTORS FRITZ LANG AND JOE MAY...
00:40:01 THEIR SCORES ADDED ROMANCE
00:44:39 BUT THAT ISN'T WHY I'M HERE.
00:49:16 MONEY WIRED FROM HOLLYWOOD
00:53:24 LORRE WOULD CONSIDER ONE OF HIS BEST --
00:56:57 IT CAN SHELTER AND CLOTHE AND FEED
01:01:54 AND, OF COURSE, MR. LUBITSCH, HE WAS THE BIG NAME
01:05:48 THE MORE HE COULD SHARE HIS SENSE OF HUMOR.
01:09:43 SIODMAK WOULD SCRIPT 20 HORROR FILMS IN HOLLYWOOD.
01:14:03 AS HEDY LAMARR.
01:18:46 TO MARLENE DIETRICH WENT THE HONOR OF KISSING
01:23:00 AMONG THEM
01:26:15 [ WOMAN SPEAKING FRENCH ]
01:30:42 BY THE EARLY '40s, HOLLYWOOD WAS HOME
01:36:09 "TO WHICH I REPLIED THAT BILLY WILDER'S FILM
01:41:16 WHAT HAS ALL THIS TO DO WITH ME?
01:45:57 FORGET EVERYTHING AND COME."
01:50:42 Man: I THINK THERE ARE PEOPLE