Film

A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner 2021

55 min TMDB 8.5 Documentary

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.

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Cast

  • Lotte Eisner as Self (archive footage)
  • Werner Herzog as Self
  • Volker Schlöndorff as Self
  • Wim Wenders as Self
  • Martje Grohmann as Self
  • Bernard Eisenschitz as Self

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