Filmmakers from Berlin and Vienna exiled in Hollywood

Poster for the film Casablanca, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Conrad Veidt and Peter Lorre, 1942.
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The symbiosis of European and American cultures enabled Hollywood to produce the greatest masterpieces of cinema, as filmmakers from Berlin and Vienna, during the 1930s in particular, brought their know-how and culture, which they adapted to their new environment. German expressionism, psychoanalysis and Viennese humour contributed to film noir, light and serious comedy, melodrama and the Western.

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