2009 • NR • 1h 57m
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Eight hundred German filmmakers (cast and crew) fled the Nazis in the 1930s. The film uses voice-ove 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.
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Sigourney Weaver Narrator (voice) 
Marlene Dietrich Self (archive footage) 
Hedy Lamarr Self (archive footage) 
Elsa Lanchester Self (archive footage) 
Peter Lorre Self (archive footage) 
Billy Wilder Self (archive footage) 
Fritz Lang Self (archive footage) 
Lupita Tovar Self - Interviewee 
Fred Zinnemann Self (archive footage) 
Peter Viertel Self (archive footage) 
Rudi Fehr Self (archive footage) Karen Thomas Director Karen Thomas Writer
Sigourney Weaver Narrator (voice) Marlene Dietrich Self (archive footage) Hedy Lamarr Self (archive footage) Elsa Lanchester Self (archive footage) Peter Lorre Self (archive footage) Billy Wilder Self (archive footage) Fritz Lang Self (archive footage) Lupita Tovar Self - Interviewee Fred Zinnemann Self (archive footage) Peter Viertel Self (archive footage) Rudi Fehr Self (archive footage) Karen Thomas Director Karen Thomas Writer
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