The Director
Daniel Kehlmann, Ross Benjamin · 2023 · book
An artist’s life and a pact with the devil: this is a novel about the dangerous illusions of the silver screen When the Nazis seize power in the 1930s, G.W. Pabst, one of cinema’s greatest directors, is filming in France. To escape the horrors of the new Germany, he flees to Hollywood. But under the dazzling California sun, the world-famous director suddenly looks like a nobody. Not even Greta Garbo, whom he made famous, can help him. When Pabst receives word that his elderly mother is ai…
