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.
00:07:47 Man: YOU MUST REMEMBER THAT THERE WAS
00:13:05 PART DOCUMENTARY
00:19:09 OTTO von BISMARCK OBSERVED THAT
00:25:57 WALKING HOME FROM WORK, COMPOSER FRANZ WAXMAN
00:30:55 "ITS SPEED INCREASING.
00:36:08 BEFORE HE WAS SIGNED TO ANOTHER PICTURE.
00:41:47 LANG HAD SIGNED WITH
00:45:53 WITHOUT FIGHTING FOR IT.
00:50:50 Man: I HAD WORKED IN LONDON BEFORE
00:54:46 MOST RECOGNIZED ACTORS.
00:58:55 "WE THOUGHT OF OURSELVES AS VIENNESE,"
01:03:41 DADDY.
01:07:56 NOT EVERYONE WAS AS FORTUNATE.
01:12:07 JOE MAY NEVER WAS ABLE TO ACCOMMODATE HIMSELF
01:16:45 HAND-PAINTED FINE CHINA FOR FANCIER SHOPS IN LOS ANGELES.
01:21:21 REALLY?
01:25:14 [ GUNSHOT ]
01:28:47 Astaire: # BUT WE DIDN'T DO #
01:34:47 [ TRAIN RUMBLING ]
01:40:31 HE ASKED FREDERICK HOLLANDER
01:45:06 WHERE DEMOCRACY HAD GONE SOFT."
01:50:10 LOOK AT IT.
05:00:00 FOR ITS RECOVERY.