Movie Details
Original Language:German
Production Companies:ZDF, ARTE, Acqua alta, Ilona Grundmann Filmproduction
Cast & Crew
A
Aurique Delannoy
Editor
Y
Yann Brolli
Producer
T
Timon Koulmasis
Writer
R
Rüdiger Kortz
Director of Photography
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
Audience Score
55 minDocumentary
Plot
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.
