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Douglas Sirk (born Hans Detlef Sierck; 26 April 1897 – 14 January 1987) was a German film director best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s. However, he also directed comedies, westerns, and war films. [2]
Douglas Sirk war ein deutscher Film- und Bühnenregisseur. Sierk arbeitete zunächst in Deutschland als Theater- und Filmregisseur. Wegen seiner jüdischen Ehefrau und politischen Gegnerschaft zum Nationalsozialismus flüchtete Sirk Ende 1937 aus Deutschland. Nach seinem ersten amerikanischen Film 1943 konnte er sich dort erfolgreich ...
Douglas Sirk. Director: The Final Chord. Film director Douglas Sirk, whose reputation blossomed in the generation after his 1959 retirement from Hollywood filmmaking, was born Hans Detlef Sierck on April 26, 1897, in Hamburg, Germany, to a journalist.
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Douglas Sirk, German-born American film director whose extremely popular melodramas offered cynical visions of American values. His best-known films included Magnificent Obsession (1954), All That Heaven Allows (1955), Written on the Wind (1956), and Imitation of Life (1959).
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- Zu neuen Ufern (1937) Sirk’s most interesting film for UFA (the leading German studio of its day used by the Nazis for its propaganda films) is a tale of a woman brought down by the inadequacy of men around her.
- La Habanera (1937) Zarah Leander suffers again in her second film with Sirk, but here her character is much stronger – she plays a Swedish woman who, on holiday in Puerto Rico, runs off the ship to stay in the exotic locale to become the wife of a wealthy landowner.
- Summer Storm (1944) Before this adaptation of Chekhov’s 1884 novel The Shooting Party, Linda Darnell was valued for her beauty rather than her acting ability, but her role here as Olga, a peasant girl who ruins the lives of three men in her quest for wealth and social standing, relaunched her career.
- Shockproof (1949) While a film directed by Sirk and scripted by Sam Fuller (just before he kickstarted his own directing career with the same year’s I Shot Jesse James) should have critics cheering, Shockproof, though a superior noir with excellent performances, isn’t the masterpiece it should be.
Dec 21, 2015 · A German émigré (he left in 1937 and came to the United States in 1939), Sirk made some great movies about Europe before finding his footing as a distinctive observer of American life. But, once...
Apr 26, 2021 · A guide to the Technicolor melodramas of Douglas Sirk, a German-born director who became a Hollywood master of style and subversion. Learn about his themes, influences and best films, from All That Heaven Allows to Imitation of Life.
