Douglas Sirk (1897 - 1987)


* April 26, 1897 Hamburg, Germany
 as Hans Detlef Sierck
 January 14, 1987 Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland




Books with substantial mentioning of Douglas Sirk

Harper Cossar
Letterboxed, The evolution of widescreen cinema
Lexington, KY, 2011

John C. Tibbetts, James M. Welsh
The Encyclopedia of Filmmakers, Volume Two
New York, NY, 2002

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 2. Directors
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Andrew Sarris (editor) The St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia Andrew Sarris (editor)
The St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia
Detroit - New York - Toronto - London, 1998

Books with an entry on Douglas Sirk

Robert C. Reimer, Carol J. Reimer Historical Dictionary of German Cinema Robert C. Reimer, Carol J. Reimer
Historical Dictionary of German Cinema
Lanham, Maryland, Toronto, Plymouth, UK, 2008

David Thomson The New Biographical Dictionary of Film David Thomson
The New Biographical Dictionary of Film
New York, 2003

Larry Langman Destination Hollywood Larry Langman
Destination Hollywood, The Influence of Europeans on American Filmmaking
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2000

Helga und Karlheinz Wendtland Geliebter Kintopp Helga und Karlheinz Wendtland
Geliebter Kintopp, Sämtliche deutsche Spielfilme von 1929-1945 - Künstlerbiographien l_Z
Berlin, 1995

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1988, A Survey of the Films of 1987
Pasadena, California; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1988
pp. 499-500 info

Articles on Douglas Sirk

Andrew G. Bonnell, Melodrama for the master race: Two films by Detlef Sierck (Douglas Sirk), in: Film History, vol. 10, 1998 pp. 208-218

Jochen Meyer-Wendt, "Ich brauchte etwas mehr Kino", Detlef Siercks deutsche Melodramen, in: Hans-Michael Bock und Michael Töteberg (Hg.), Das Ufa-Buch, Frankfurt am Main, 1992

Films

1934
Zwei Genies

1935
Der eingebildete Kranke
Stützen der Gesellschaft
April, April!
Das Mädchen vom Moorhof
Dreimal Ehe

1936
Das Hofkonzert
Schlußakkord
't Was een April

1937
La habanera
Zu neuen Ufern
Chanson du souvenir, La
Liebling der Matrosen

1938
Accord final
Dreiklang

1939
Boefje

1943
Hitler's Madman

1944
Summer Storm

1946
The Strange Woman
A Scandal in Paris

1947
Lured

1948
Sleep, My Love

1949
Shockproof
Slightly French

1950
Mystery Submarine

1951
Thunder on the Hill
The First Legion
The Lady Pays Off
Week-End with Father

1952
Has Anybody Seen My Gal
No Room for the Groom
Has Anybody Seen My Gal

1953
Take Me to Town
All I Desire
Meet Me at the Fair

1954
Sign of the Pagan
Magnificent Obsession
Taza, Son of Cochise

1955
All That Heaven Allows
Captain Lightfoot

1956
Written on the Wind
Never Say Goodbye
There's Always Tomorrow

1957
Battle Hymn
Interlude
The Tarnished Angels

1958
A Time to Love and a Time to Die

1959
Imitation of Life

2010
Daniel Schmid - Le chat qui pense

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