Jeffrey Brown:
The 1925 filmed “The Joyless Street” starring Greta Garbo, 1929’s “Pandora’s Box” with Louise Brooks, two landmark films directed by G.W. Pabst, considered one of the world’s great filmmakers of the silent era, an innovator in visual storytelling.
The Austria native first made his mark in Europe left for Hollywood as the Nazis came to power in the 1930s, but found little success there, and then as World War II was beginning returned home, where he made films for and under the Nazi regime.
Daniel Kehlmann, Author, “The Director”: It’s like the normal, regular story of the refugee fleeing the Nazis, fleeing prosecution turned on its head. And I thought, this is an amazing story. I have to look into that and I have to turn that into a novel.
