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 (2240 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 13 novembre 2009