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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. Read More

Watch Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood online. Featuring Sigourney Weaver and Marlene Dietrich, Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood is classified as TV Movie and Documentary genre movie with an average rating across the web of 0. It is available for streaming online in the USA The movie was filmed in United States of America and was released on 2009. Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood was directed by Fritz Lang,Fred Zinnemann. Read Less