Shadows In Paradise - Hitler's Exiles In Hollywood

By 1939, 30,000 intellectuals and radicals were exiled from Europe, and 80% were Jewish. These dramatic events sent many of the greatest minds of the 20th century into exile in the United States. The scores of émigrés, fleeing the upsurge of European fascism, briefly transformed Southern California into one of the capitals of world culture, and profoundly altered the horizons of American music, literature and the arts.

Among those interviewed are: Lion Feuchtwanger, Bertolt Brecht, Thomas Mann, Fritz Lang, Erich Maria Remarque, Bruno Walter, Ernst Toch, Erich Zeisl Arnold Schoenberg, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Salka Viertel, Hanns Eisler

Produced and Directed by Peter Rosen Hosted by James Conlon.

Upplagd i sortimentet: 26 September, 2008