Film Emigration from Nazi Germany

Film Emigration from Nazi Germany

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 for Film Emigration from Nazi Germany...

Curt Bois
Self (archive footage)
Fritz Kortner
Self (archive footage)
Ilka Grüning
Self (archive footage)
Hans Heinrich von Twardowski
Self (archive footage)
Peter Lorre
Self (archive footage)
Reinhold Schünzel
Self (archive footage)
S.Z. Sakall
Self (archive footage)
Felix Basch
Self (archive footage)
Bertolt Brecht
Self (archive footage)