Russian Story, German Director, Hollywood Film
di Dave Kehr The New York Times
“Summer Storm” (1944) was the second film that the German-born Douglas Sirk made in the United States after he fled Europe. But it feels like a European film through and through, which — as a product of the exiled German film industry in Hollywood — it almost literally is. It was produced by Seymour Nebenzal (“M”), with special effects and uncredited cinematography by Eugen Schüfftan (“Metropolis”) and adapted by Sirk (under the pseudonym Michael O’Hara) from Chekhov’s “Shooting Party.” With production design, editing, costumes and music also by émigrés, “Summer Storm” is a trans-Atlantic reflection of the sort of dark, doom-laden social drama that haunted European theaters right before the war broke out. [...]
di Dave Kehr, articolo completo (2232 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 15 Novembre 2009
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