Movie: Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood

Top 10 Billed Cast

Sigourney Weaver
Sigourney Weaver

Narrator (voice)

Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich

Self (archive footage)

Hedy Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr

Self (archive footage)

Elsa Lanchester
Elsa Lanchester

Self (archive footage)

Peter Lorre
Peter Lorre

Self (archive footage)

Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder

Self (archive footage)

Fritz Lang
Fritz Lang

Self (archive footage)

Lupita Tovar
Lupita Tovar

Self - Interviewee

Fred Zinnemann
Fred Zinnemann

Self (archive footage)

Peter Viertel
Peter Viertel

Self (archive footage)

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