Film Emigration from Nazi Germany (1975)

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.

Cast (40)CrewGenresDetailsMediaAwards

H

Hans Feld

Self

M

Marta Feuchtwanger

Self

A

Artur Gottlein

Self

P

Peter Kartner

Self

Curt Bois

Self (archive footage)

Fritz Kortner

Self (archive footage)

Anatole Litvak

Self

Luise Rainer

Self

J

John Brahm

Self

Harry R. Sokal

Self

G

George Froeschel

Self

Fritz Lang

Self

Camilla Spira

Self

Ilka Grüning

Self (archive footage)

H

Harold Nebenzal

Self

Hans Heinrich von Twardowski

Self (archive footage)

L

Lotte Eisner

Self

Rudi Fehr

Self

Paul Falkenberg

Self

Bronislau Kaper

Self

Martin Kosleck

Self

Gerd Oswald

Self

Gitta Alpár

Self

H

Heinrich Fraenkel

Self

G

Gottfried Reinhardt

Self

Johanna Hofer

Self

Peter Lorre

Self (archive footage)

Lucie Mannheim

Self

Reinhold Schünzel

Self (archive footage)

J

Jan Lustig

Self

Franz Marischka

Self

Paul Henreid

Self

Oskar Homolka

Self

Francis Lederer

Self

S.Z. Sakall

Self (archive footage)

Felix Basch

Self (archive footage)

Bertolt Brecht

Self (archive footage)

Dolly Haas

Self

F

Frederick Kohner

Self

P

Peter Kortner

Self

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