[LEN-E] Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood

[Luc Deneulin]

It is a very interesting topic, in fact it rarely occurs to non  
critical Riefenstahl fans that many very many people working in the  
cinema field saw their career ended as soon as 1933 because they could  
not work in Germany since one had to prove that one had 4 Aryan grand  
parents (as soon as end of 1933).

The ones that were already known ans succesfil could go to America  
where they could make films, but here also, many of the most succesful  
already lefgt before the nazis came to power because of better working  
conditions (Sternberg-Dietrich).


That directors like Leontine Sagan, Lotte Reiniger (to name two women)  
had to stop working and even didn't get any press coverage -- they  
started to do another job - should be taken in account when there is  
discussion about "There are so mny critical books about Riefenstahl"  
or "She wasn't allowed to work after the war " (the latter is not even  
true) --  is a very sad fact and had it happened to Riefenstahl, noone  
would have spoken about her I guess, which is not the case for the  
work of Sagan and Reiniger (I only name two women)

Luc



On 27 Dec 2008, at 21:10, Ron Koster wrote:

This isn't quite related to Leni, except perhaps only indirectly (and  
I'm sure many people here will be interested in this)...

For those of us in North America who get the PBS channel, next  
Thursday (January 1st) they'll be airing the premiere of the following  
documentary all about Fritz Lang, et al., who escaped Nazi Germany and  
came to America in early 1930s...

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/cinemasexiles/