• StatusEnded
  • Rating9
  • Created by:Günter Peter Straschek
  • Production
    CompaniesWDR, Sender Freies Berlin, WSK-Productions Inc. New York
  • GenreDocumentary
  • Episode
    Runtime60mins
  • First Air
    Date1975-11-11
  • NetworksWDR Fernsehen

Overview

Based on extensive interviews, shot on 16mm in a series of static long takes, Filmemigration aus Nazideutschland, is one of the most fascinating examples of "Film history on film" ever produced. Straschek devoted years to researching the topic and accumulating both film and non-film materials. Apart from some radio features and articles, however, this 290-minute TV programme remains the only published trace of Straschek's lifelong work on the emigration of film personnel. He had intended to publish a three-volume book, encompassing all available data about 3,000 emigrants originating from the centre and peripheries of film production, but the book never materialised.

Casts

Curt Bois

Fritz Kortner

Anatole Litvak

Luise Rainer

John Brahm

Harry R. Sokal

Fritz Lang

Camilla Spira

Ilka Grüning

Hans Heinrich von Twardowski

Lotte Eisner

Rudi Fehr

Paul Falkenberg

Bronislau Kaper

Martin Kosleck

Gerd Oswald

Gitta Alpár

Johanna Hofer

Peter Lorre

Lucie Mannheim

Reinhold Schünzel

Franz Marischka

Paul Henreid

Oskar Homolka

Francis Lederer

S.Z. Sakall

Felix Basch

Bertolt Brecht

Dolly Haas