CCALC - Reinhold Schünzel : A German Filmmaker who Defied the Nazis
Wednesday, October 21, 2026 · 1:00 PM EDT · Meriden Public Library · Meriden, CT
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Reinhold Schünzel (1888 - 1954) was a popular German actor and director who got his start in silent films. He is best known for writing and directing the gender-bending musical Victor and Victoria (1933), remade with Julie Andrews in 1982. Although he was half-Jewish, the Nazis let him work because he knew how to make films that Hitler also enjoyed. But when the subversive, anti-Nazi undertones in his comedies got him in trouble with the regime, he fled Germany in 1937 and settled in Hollywood w
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