Films & Directors
Pastor Hall
Filmmuseum/Synema/Filmarchiv, GB 1940, 95 min., eOF
Friday 20.03.
11:00, augartenkino kiz
Regie: Roy Boulting
Script: Leslie Arliss, Haworth Bromley, Anna Gmeyner (ps: Anna Reiner), John und Roy Boulting (beide ungenannt) nach dem Stück von Ernst Toller (1938)
Camera: Mutz Greenbaum, Cecil Cooney
Editor: Jack Harris, Clifford Boote
Music: Hans May (Mac Adams)
Cast: Wilfrid Lawson, Nova Pilbeam, Seymour Hicks, Marius Goring, Brian Worth, Lina Barrie, u.a.
Producer: John Boulting
Production: Charter Film Productions
Pastor Hall was one of the first anti-nazi films produced in the UK. “Anna Reiner, the cosmopolitan author of the bestseller, 'The Wall', was born in Vienna and is Russian by marriage. The 'little bits' she has brought to Toller's play have, after all, made a 'big hit' out of the film.”
(C. A. Lejeune)