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    A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner

    A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner

    2021

    55:34

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    A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner

    Genre

    Documentary
    TV Movie

    Plot

    Born in Berlin in 1896, Lotte Eisner became famous for her passionate involvement in the world of both German and French cinema. In 1936, together with Henri Langlois, she founded the Cinémathèque Française with the goal of saving from destruction films, costumes, sets, posters, and other treasures of the 7th Art. A Jew exiled in Paris, she became a pillar of the capital's cultural scene, where she promoted German cinema.

    Director

    Timon Koulmasis

    Writers

    Timon Koulmasis,

    Stars

    Lotte Eisner, Werner Herzog, Volker Schlöndorff, Wim Wenders, Martje Grohmann,