ADMISSION

• $8 General
• $5 Full-Time Students
• FREE to Members*

*Limited to two tickets per Membership

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

Attend a fascinating lecture by UCLA Film and Television Archives Director and German exile cinema historian Jan-Christopher Horak, PhD, on how Hollywood became the prime employer of European émigrés as Nazi persecution grew, followed by a screening of Austrian émigré Fritz Lang’s Hangmen Also Die!

Hangmen Also Die! is loosely based on the 1942 assassination of Reinhard Heydrich (played by German émigré Hans Heinrich von Twardowski), the Nazi administrator of Czechoslovakia who authored the Final Solution and was also known as the “Hangman of Europe.” The film, co-authored by Lang and poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht, sounded a dark warning about the spread of Nazi power in Europe. A product of America’s burgeoning wartime film propaganda market, Hangmen Also Die! was shot in a newsreel/documentary style that highlighted the grim realities of WWII. It was nominated for two Academy Awards. (1943, 134 min. No MPAA rating. Restored DCP version courtesy of Cohen Film Collection).

Watch the trailer for Hangmen Also Die!:

Arrive early and view the exhibitions—Lecture ticketholders are invited to visit the exhibitions Light & Noir: Exiles and Émigrés in Hollywood, 1933–1950 and The Noir Effect, which will remain open until 7:30 p.m.