Films Series

Past Film Series:
Before and After Exile
German Filmmakers with Jewish Backgrounds

Featuring works of German/Austrian filmmakers such as Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder and Ernst Lubitsch before and after their emigration to the US, the film series is intended to provide a platform to compare these works from a film history perspective as well as with regards to their content. As for the latter, we are (among other topics) interested in the filmmakers' 'construction' of Europe/ Germany from the distance. The series will conclude with Dani Levy's award-winning and controversial most recent film "Alles auf Zuker", which, as critics have argued, forms a revival of the German-Jewish comedy genre.

Jan. 25 Fritz Lang, Testament des Dr. Mabuse (1931)

Feb. 1 Fritz Lang, Hangmen also Die (1943)

Feb. 15 Billy Wilder, Ein blonder Traum/ (1932)/
Menschen am Sonntag (1929)

Mar. 15 Billy Wilder, One, Two, Three (1961)

Mar. 29 Ernst Lubitsch, Meyer aus Berlin (1919)

Apr. 12 Ernst Lubitsch, To be or not to be (1942)

Apr. 26 Dani Levy, Alles auf Zuker (2004)