[…]n - one generation went to the United States and the family name was Zahler and in Hollywood there are some Zahlers - one composed music for a lot of republic second features and his son is also - I have seen his credit - his son is also a composer. They have completely lost touch with that. And a l[…]
[…]me what it meant. And of course all the events of the Spanish Civil War were very vivid to me because it was my first faltering recognition towards a Republican instinct, which must have been just frivolous and infantile. But in 1937, by that time I was at this public school, we almost destroyed a n[…]
[…]th there and I was running refugees out. And I made the frontier I think, my final trip to the frontier was made about 3 hours before the fall of the Republic and I remained down there for about 3 weeks going round the refugee camps getting out people whose lives would be in danger. And getting them[…]
[…] made two short films to rally support for the Spanish republic: Behind the enemy lines, and Spanish ABC. Both were […]
[…]of German film history and a lot of material that was considered too Nazi in its sympathies was redacted as you might say and when the German Federal Republic was set up at the end of the occupation, the redacted film came back to the UK and was divided between the National Film Archive and The Impe[…]
[…], yes that’s right. Were you in the union before then?Oh at that time...Dou you still...?Yes it was the... How’s it going? The GDR, German Democratic Republic.Oh yes.And they weren’t recognised actually, they weren’t recognised at that time.That’s right, that’s right.And we had to do, we were, we ha[…]
[…]inally released, jack Warner decided because I just had a big success. He thought act of mercy was it was about I thought of a wounded president of a republic where there'd been a revolution trying to escape. And these people getting involved. And jack Warner when he saw the film thought it was a bi[…]
