Hollywood's Second World War
7.2
For the USA, World War 2 was an all-out war - to mobilize the masses, the US government launched a huge propaganda campaign and cinema, the medium of the masses, was quite simply their most important weapon. Government authorities monitored the production of feature films and the military itself produced documentaries aimed at rallying the American people to support the troops. This film tells the story of four Hollywood directors of European origin, who returned to the "Old World" during the Second World War to make propaganda documentaries for the US Army at the front: William Wyler from Alsace, Frank Capra from Italy, Anatole Litvak from Ukraine and - in post-war Germany - Billy Wilder from Austria.
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Cast
25 people
Volker Schlöndorff
Self
Also in
11 Uhr 20
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
George Stevens Jr.
Self
Dulcie Smart
Narrator
Jascha Hannover
Lorenza Castella
Catherine Wyler
Self
Known for
The Skeptic
André Schäfer
Hans Bayer
Hans Bayer
Anatole Litvak
Self (archive footage)
William Wyler
Self (archive footage)
Michelangelo Capua
Michelangelo Capua
Frank Capra
Self (archive footage)
Also in
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Hollywood sul Tevere
Jascha Hannover Director · Fritz Busse Editor Arno Blumenstock Production designer
United States release September 3, 2019 · Produced in Germany · Languages English, German
Production
Global Screen
Production
Radio Bremen
Production
ARTE
Production
Florianfilm
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Germany
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Languages
Original title
Hollywoods Zweiter Weltkrieg
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
English · German
Release dates
United States · September 3, 2019
Premiere · Docutah Festival
France
September 8, 2019 · TV
Germany
September 8, 2019 · TV
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