Maximilian Pellnitz

Varias películas épicas de alto presupuesto convirtieron a Omar Sharif (1932-2015) en una estrella de cine. Era un actor, pero también un jugador de bridge, un mujeriego, un vividor; era un hombre lleno de contradicciones, que disfrutaba más de los juegos de cartas que de las películas; era un eterno nómada que pasó la mitad de su vida en un hotel.

His opponents accused him of being homosexual. The male favorites he gathered around him during his short life gave those malevolent enemies solid arguments to do so. He would not have failed if he had proved himself to be an energetic king. But Edward II of England (1284-1327) never was a king like Edward I Longshanks, his father, or Edward III, his son, were. And his end is shrouded in myth and mystery.

For the USA, World War 2 was an all-out war - to mobilize the masses, the US government launched a huge propaganda campaign and cinema, the medium of the masses, was quite simply their most important weapon. Government authorities monitored the production of feature films and the military itself produced documentaries aimed at rallying the American people to support the troops. This film tells the story of four Hollywood directors of European origin, who returned to the "Old World" during the Second World War to make propaganda documentaries for the US Army at the front: William Wyler from Alsace, Frank Capra from Italy, Anatole Litvak from Ukraine and - in post-war Germany - Billy Wilder from Austria.