Jascha Hannover
2021Hollywood's Second World War
Jascha Hannover
Volker Schlöndorff, George Stevens Jr.
For the USA, World War 2 was an all-out war - to mobilize the masses, the US government launched a huge propaganda campaign and cinema, the medium of the masses, was quite simply their most important weapon. Government authorities monitored the production of feature films and the military itself produced documentaries aimed at rallying the American people to support the troops. This film tells the story of four Hollywood directors of European origin, who returned to the "Old World" during the Second World War to make propaganda documentaries for the US Army at the front: William Wyler from Alsace, Frank Capra from Italy, Anatole Litvak from Ukraine and - in post-war Germany - Billy Wilder from Austria.
Hollywood's Second World War
Omar Sharif - Aus dem Leben eines Nomaden
Jascha Hannover
Omar Sharif Jr., Steve Kenis
Several high-budget epic films became Omar Sharif (1932-2015) a film star. He was an actor, but also a bridge player, a womanizer, a bon vivant; he was a man full of contradictions, who enjoyed card games more than movies; he was an eternal nomad who spent half his life in a hotel.
Omar Sharif: Citizen of the World
The Wikipedia Promise
Jascha Hannover, Lorenza Castella
Larry Sanger, Andrew Keen
In 2001, Jimmy Wales published the first article on Wikipedia, a collaborative effort that began with a promise: to democratize the spreading of knowledge, monopolized by the elites for centuries. But is Wikipedia really a utopia come true?
The Wikipedia Promise
Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder
Jascha Hannover, André Schäfer
Mario Adorf, Paul Diamond
A funny walk through the life story of Billy Wilder (1906-2002), a cinematic genius; a portrait of a filmmaker who never was a boring man, a superb mind who had ten commandments, of which the first nine were: “Thou shalt not bore.”
Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder
