Hollywood's origin story told by the Germans who built its dreams.
Cinematography
Glorious silent-era studio montages that invented the Hollywood gaze.
Production
Rare behind-the-scenes footage of Chaplin and Murnau at work.
Director
Max Goldschmidt
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This German fascination with Hollywood's efficiency eerily prefigures the Weimar talent exodus—Murnau himself would die in California just months after filming.
Arnold Höllriegel, the film's narrator, was a journalist who'd soon vanish from history—making this his only surviving screen appearance.
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