DOUGLAS SIRK, NÉ DETLEF SIERCK — Bernard Eisenschitz

By Bernard Eisenschitz

15 x 23 cm / 416 pages / August 2022

isbn 978-2-35137-329-3

In French only

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It's time to discover and rediscover the great filmmaker Douglas Sirk, now recognized as the master of American melodrama.

Composing a portrait that is at once biographical and imagined-imaginary (through what it reveals of what Sirk projected from his life into his art), Douglas Sirk, né Detlef Sierck goes through the entire work, the entire biography to give an account of Douglas Sirk as a man of culture and a total filmmaker, appealing to immediate emotion.

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Published on the occasion of the retrospective dedicated to Douglas Sirk, curated by Bernard Eisenschitz and Roberto Turigliatto, organized by the Locarno Film Festival 2022 in collaboration with La Cinémathèque française and the Cinémathèque suisse.