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Cinema's Exiles

2009
United States
TV-Documentary
90 min.
Location shooting / Berlin story line

Cast

Voice: Sigourney Weaver (Narrator); Scott Subiono (Hans Salter); Sewell Whitney (Bertolt Brecht); Scott Beehner (Henry Koster); George Alvarez (Curt Siodmak); Josh Nathan (Frederick Hollander); Kristin Lindquist (Salka Viertel); Lynne Maclean (Boszi Sakall); Robert Maffia (Erich Pommer); Vaughn Armstrong (Ernst Lubitsch); Lesli Margherita (Kitty Koster); Raphael Sbarge (Translator); Kevin Fabian (Miklos Rozsa)

Archive material: Marlene Dietrich; Deanna Durbin; John Garfield; Paul Henreid; Adolf Hitler; Henry Koster; Hedy Lamarr; Elsa Lanchester; Charles Laughton; Peter Lorre; Ernst Lubitsch; Josef A. Pasternack; S.Z. Sakall; Ann Sheridan; Lupita Tovar; Billy Wilder

Direction

Director: Karen Thomas

Writing

Screenplay: Karen Thomas

Camera & Light

Director of photography: Joan Churchill; Emil Fischhaber

Cutting & Mixing

Editing: Anny Lowery Meza

Sound: Alan Barker

Sound design: Kenneth Gilbert

Casting: Terry Berland

Music

Music: Peter Rodgers Melnick

Production

Producer: Karen Thomas

Co-Producer: Sophia Maroon

Executive Producer: Margaret Smilow

Editorial department: Kristin Lovejoy; Junko Tsunashima

Production coordination: Sonoko Aoyagi Leopold

Production assistant: Ragan Carpenter

Miscellaneous

Advice: John Waxman

Companies

Production company: Film Odyssey; Thirteen / WNET; Turner Entertainment

in Co-Operation: Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum für Film und Fernsehen; Institut National de l Audiovisuel (INA)