Shadows in Paradise (DVD)

By 1939, 30,000 intellectuals and radicals were exiled from Europe; 80% were Jewish. These dramatic events sent many of the greatest minds of the 20th century into exile in the United States. In some ways, Los Angeles in the 30s and early 40s may be seen as its afterglow when scores of émigrés, fleeing the upsurge of European fascism, briefly transformed Southern California into one of the capitals of world culture.

Directed by: Peter Rosen

60 min. * Color * English