Documentary

Unwanted Cinema

Name: Unwanted Cinema
Director: Petrus van der Let
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2005-01-01
Duration: 90 min
Cast: Rosy Barsony, Franziska Gaal, Anna Gereb, Hans Járay, Henry Koster

January 1, 2005

1h 30m

The documentary shows the exclusion of Jewish film makers after Hitler took power in Germany and how this led to an independent filmproduction in Vienna and Budapest from 1934 till 1937. With previously unpublished archive material are portrayed: Hermann Kosterlitz (Henry Koster), Felix Joachimson (Jackson), Joe Pasternak, Otto Wallburg, Hans Jaray, Franziska Gaal, Rosy Barsony, Hortense Raky, Oskar Pilzer, Zoltan Vidor, Ernst Verebes.