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A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner

Documentary, TV Movie | 2021-02-24 | France, Germany

IMDB8.5 / 10

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Runtime55 min.

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.

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