Peter Viertel

Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood (2009)

Eight hundred German filmmakers (cast and crew) fled the Nazis in the 1930s. The film uses voice-overs, archival footage, and film clips to examine Berlin's vital filmmaking in the 1920s; then it follows a producer, directors, composers, editors, writers, and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Karen Thomas
CAST:  Sigourney Weaver  •  Marlene Dietrich  •  Hedy Lamarr  •  Elsa Lanchester

Eight hundred German filmmakers (cast and crew) fled the Nazis in the 1930s. The film uses voice-overs, archival footage, and film clips to examine Berlin's vital filmmaking in the 1920s; then it follows a producer, directors, composers, editors, writers, and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Karen Thomas
CAST:  Sigourney Weaver  •  Marlene Dietrich  •  Hedy Lamarr  •  Elsa Lanchester

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (2014)

The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85), an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible independent creator: a musical prodigy, an excellent painter, a master of theater and radio, a modern Shakespeare, a magician who was always searching for a new trick to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Chuck Workman
CAST:  Orson Welles  •  Christopher Welles  •  Peter Bogdanovich  •  Joanne Hill Styles

The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85), an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible independent creator: a musical prodigy, an excellent painter, a master of theater and radio, a modern Shakespeare, a magician who was always searching for a new trick to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Chuck Workman
CAST:  Orson Welles  •  Christopher Welles  •  Peter Bogdanovich  •  Joanne Hill Styles

The Well (2005)

Tracing Orson Welles time in Spain.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kristian Petri
CAST:  Jesús Franco  •  Oja Kodar  •  William Law  •  Peter Viertel

Tracing Orson Welles time in Spain.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kristian Petri
CAST:  Jesús Franco  •  Oja Kodar  •  William Law  •  Peter Viertel