A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner(2021)

🎬55 min
📅2021-02-24
🎭Documentary, TV Movie
⭐8.5/10

Overview

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 CinÊmathèque 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.

Production

ZDF, ARTE, Acqua alta, Ilona Grundmann Filmproduction

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Cast

Lotte Eisner
as Self (archive footage)
Werner Herzog
as Self
Volker SchlĂśndorff
as Self
Wim Wenders
as Self
Martje Grohmann
as Self
Bernard Eisenschitz
as Self
Laurent Mannoni
as Self

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