Which filmmaker's family emigrated permanently to the United States when he was fourteen, Masaki Kobayashi or Josef von Sternberg?
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Masaki Kobayashi Masaki Kobayashi (小林 正樹 , "Kobayashi Masaki" , February 14, 1916 – October 4, 1996) was a Japanese film director, best known for the epic trilogy "The Human Condition" (1959–1961), the samurai film "Seppuku" (1962), and "Ghost Stories" (1964).
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Josef von Sternberg Josef von Sternberg, (29 May 1894 – 22 December 1969) was an Austrian-American film director. His family emigrated permanently to the United States when he was fourteen, and he grew up in New York City. He started working at World Film Company in Fort Lee, New Jersey, where he was mentored by French director Emile Chautard.
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Peter Morley (filmmaker) Peter Morley, OBE (26 June 1924 – 23 June 2016) was a German-born British television producer and documentary filmmaker. As a nine-year-old child, he fled Nazi Germany with his elder siblings and moved to England, where he lived until his death. He made several documentaries about the Holocaust, winning several awards, both in England and abroad.
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Michael Arias Michael Arias (born 1968) is an American-born filmmaker active primarily in Japan.
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Bruce Sinofsky Bruce Sinofsky (March 31, 1956 – February 21, 2015) was an American documentary film director, particularly known for his films the "" trilogy, "Brother's Keeper" and "Some Kind of Monster", all created with Joe Berlinger.
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Fumiko Kometani Fumiko Kometani (米谷ふみ子 "Kometani Fumiko"), born in Osaka, Japan in 1930, is a Japanese author and artist (painter) and a longtime resident of the United States. Kometani moved to the U.S. in 1960 when she was working as an abstract painter, spending time at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire where she met her husband, Josh Greenfeld (now living in California). She changed her focus to writing when her developmentally-disabled son Noah became too hard to handle when he was around the art supplies in her studio. Her older son, Karl Taro Greenfeld, is also a writer.
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Hirsch Schwartzberg Hirsch Schwartzberg (Szwarcberg, Schwarzberg) (October 28, 1907, in Vilna —October 17, 1987 in Ashdod ) was a Jewish leader of Holocaust survivors (Yiddish: בפרייטה יידין אויף ברלין‎ ) under the American occupation of Berlin.
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I Want to Destroy America I Want to Destroy America is a documentary film by Peter I. Chang which traces the life of the Japanese musician Hisao Shinagawa through his early years as a folk singer in Tokyo to his current occupation as a street performer in Los Angeles.
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Miriam Winter Miriam Winter (Maria Orlowski) (June 2, 1933 – July 19, 2014) was born in Łódź, Poland to Tobiasz (Tuvyeh) Winter and Majta Laja (Leah) Winter, (maiden name Kohn). She is perhaps best known for her authorship of "Trains: A Memoir of a Hidden Childhood during and after World War II", which explores not only her survival of the Holocaust as a 'hidden child' but also the psychological toll of keeping her identity hidden, even to herself, in post World War II Poland.
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Irving Thalberg Irving Grant Thalberg (May 30, 1899 – September 14, 1936) was an American film producer during the early years of motion pictures. He was called "The Boy Wonder" for his youth and ability to select scripts, choose actors, gather production staff, and make profitable films, including "Grand Hotel", "China Seas", "Camille", "Mutiny on the Bounty", and "The Good Earth". His films carved out an international market, "projecting a seductive image of American life brimming with vitality and rooted in democracy and personal freedom," states biographer Roland Flamini.
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M. David Mullen David Mullen, A.S.C. (born 26 June 1962 as Merritt David Mullen III) is a Japanese-born American cinematographer known for his photography on "Twin Falls Idaho", "Northfork", "Akeelah and the Bee", "The Astronaut Farmer", "Jennifer's Body", and "The Love Witch". He often collaborates with The Polish brothers.
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Sandor Stern Sandor Stern (born July 13, 1936) is a Canadian writer, director and film producer best known for his horror films.
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Scott Sternberg (designer) Scott Sternberg is an American fashion designer, photographer and entrepreneur based in Los Angeles, California. He was the founder, Chairman, and Creative Director of the brand Band of Outsiders.
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Fritz Stern Fritz Richard Stern (February 2, 1926 – May 18, 2016) was a German-born American historian of German history, Jewish history and historiography. He was a University Professor Emeritus and a provost at New York's Columbia University. His work focused on the complex relationships between Germans and Jews in the 19th and 20th centuries and on the rise of National Socialism in Germany during the first half of the 20th century.
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Joseph Janni Joseph Janni (21 May 1916 – 29 May 1994) was a British film producer best known for his work with John Schlesinger. He was born into a Jewish family in Milan, Italy and became interested in filmmaking while at university. He emigrated to England in 1939, and once Italy declared war against England was briefly interned in Metropole Camp on the Isle of Man. He soon became involved in the British film industry and worked his way up to producer. He produced the first films of Schlesinger and Ken Loach.
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Itzhak Stern Itzhak Stern (25 January 1901 – 1969) was a Polish-Israeli man of Jewish faith who worked for German industrialist Oskar Schindler. He was the accountant for Schindler's enamelware company ("Deutsche Emaillewarenfabrik ") in Kraków and helped run the business. He is credited with typing the list of names known as "Schindler's list", a list of Jews who survived the Holocaust because of Oskar Schindler's efforts. (There were actually seven lists, of which four are known to have survived.)
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Stern family The Stern family is a Jewish French banking family originally from Frankfurt. It traces back to Samuel Hayum Stern (1760–1819), who in the 1780s became a wine merchant in Frankfurt. His son, Jacob Samuel Heyum Stern, started a banking business, named , in 1805 in Frankfurt. His sons expand the family venture to Berlin, London, and Paris, of which the latter became most prominent as . and J. Stern & Co.
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We Were So Beloved We Were So Beloved (1985) is a documentary film by Manfred Kirchheimer about Jewish survivors of the Holocaust living in Washington Heights, Manhattan in New York City. It consists of interviews with family and friends interspersed with written and spoken quotes from "Mein Kampf" to remind the viewer of the evil that had preceded. The film received mixed reviews.
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Alex Troffey Alex Troffey (14 June 1895 – 11 September 1978) was a Polish-born film editor who emigrated to the United States.
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Eugene Hollander Eugene Hollander (born 1914) is an Hungarian survivor of the Holocaust. He wrote a memoir, "From the Hell of the Holocaust: A Survivor's Story", about his ordeal in Nazi Germany. Separated from his wife Monica for 14 months, they eventually reunited and moved to the United States.
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Moritz Daublebsky-Sterneck Moritz Georg Josef Franz Maria Freiherr Daublebsky-Sterneck (29 February 1912 - 10 January 1986) was an Austrian Righteous Among the Nations.
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The Sons of Great Bear The Sons of Great Bear (German: Die Söhne der großen Bärin ; literally, The Sons of the Great She-Bear) is a 1966 East German Western film, directed by the Czechoslovak filmmaker Josef Mach and starring the Yugoslav actor Gojko Mitić in the leading role of Tokei-ihto. The script was adapted from the eponymous series of novels by author Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich, and the music composed by Wilhelm Neef. The picture is a revisionist Western, pioneering the genre of the Ostern, and emphases on the positive portrayal of Native Americans, while presenting the Whites as antagonists. It is one of the most successful pictures produced by the DEFA studio.