13. May 2010 by admin.

Shadows in Paradise (Documentary/USA/58 minutes/2008/Directed by Peter Rosen)By 1939, 30,000 intellectuals and radicals were exiled from Europe; 80% were Jewish. These dramatic events sent many of the greatest minds of the 20th century into exile in the United States, including Arnold Schoenberg, Thomas Mann, Bertholt Brecht and Fritz Lang. In some ways, Los Angeles in the 30’s and early 40’s may be seen as its afterglow when scores of emigres, fleeing the upsurge of European fascism, briefly transformed Southern California into one of the capitals of world culture. Among those interviewed are: Lion Feuchtwanger, Bertolt Brecht, Thomas Mann, Fritz Lang, Erich Maria Remarque, Bruno Walter, Ernst Toch, Erich Zeisl, Arnold Schoenberg, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Salka Viertel, Hanns Eisler (see also 29th August 2008 blogpost). Screened yesterday as part of the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival.

• Q & A with Randol Schoenberg (everyone loved it, reports Randy!)
• Invited guest: Katharina Schulenberg, Associate Producer
• Sponsored by the Goldrich Family Foundation
• Sponsored by Pamela & Randol Schoenberg and the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust

Peter Rosen,  a film industry veteran and Emmy winner, commented (in a 2008 article): “We could not have made this film without the materials at USC’s Feuchtwanger Memorial Library. I went there first and met Feuchtwanger curator Michaela Ullmann. For a full day, she kept bringing out boxes of photos and reels of archival film. After that day, I realized we had the visual materials we needed to make a successful documentary.”

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