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Informationen zum Autor Billy Wilder was born in 1906 near Cracow in Polish Galicia! then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His first career was journalism! but he soon moved into the German film industry as a scriptwriter. When Hitler came to power! Wilder fled to Paris and came to Hollywood in 1934. His fifty-year career there-as both director and cowriter-was one of astonishing versatility and genius! encompassing films about war! murder! alcoholism! Hollywood! sensational journalism! prison camps! criminal trials! love stories! and romance as comedy. Billy Wilder has been nominated for twenty-one Academy Awards and has won six Oscars. He lives in Los Angeles. Jeffrey Meyers ! a renowned biographer! has written many books and articles on modern American! English! and European literature. He lives in Berkeley. Klappentext A facsimile edition of the screenplay of Billy Wilder's film set in an Austrian prisoner of war camp. With a new introduction by biographer Jeffrey Meyers. Zusammenfassung A riveting drama of a German prisoner-of-war camp, that was adapted from the Broadway play directed by Jose Ferrer in 1951.

Product details

• Authors: Jeffrey Meyers, Billy Wilder
• Assisted by: Jeffrey Meyers (Introduction)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.06.1999
• EAN: 9780520218574
• ISBN: 978-0-520-21857-4
• No. of pages: 152
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Screenplays, Television scripts & screenplays, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Film Scripts & Screenplays, Film scripts and screenplays, Television screenplays, scripts and performances