• Source: Herbert Kline

      • Herbert Kline (March 13, 1909 – 1999) was an American filmmaker.


      Biography


      Herbert Kline was born on March 13, 1909 in Chicago as Herbert Klein and raised in Davenport, Iowa. He edited a theater magazine, staged Clifford Odets' plays, and was involved in Leftist organizations. He was blacklisted during the 1950s. He returned to filmmaking in the 1970s. His documentary films and dramas covered the Spanish Civil War, Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia, Nazi takeover of Europe, Holocaust survivors' journey to Mandatory Palestine, a World Series championship in Cleveland, the Mexican Revolution, and a film about modern art.
      He married Rose Margaret Harvan and after the divorced Josine Ianco-Starrels with whom he had two children, a son and daughter.
      He wrote the book New Theater And Film, 1934–1937.
      MoMA restored and screened two of his World War II era films.


      Filmography


      Heart of Spain, documentary about the Spanish Civil War made with photographer Géza Kárpáthi
      Return to Life, made in collaboration with Henri Cartier-Bresson
      Love Is a Headache (1938), co-writer
      Crisis (1939 film), a documentary about the Sudeten Crisis directed by Herbert Kline, Hans Burger, and Alexander Hammid
      Lights Out in Europe (1940), a documentary
      The Forgotten Village (1941), a documentary film (some sources call it an ethnofiction) directed by Herbert Kline and Alexander Hammid from John Steinbeck's writing and screenplay
      Cinco fueron escogidos (Five Were Chosen) (1943), a Mexican film set in Yugoslavia
      Youth Runs Wild (1944), co-writer
      Boogie-Woogie Dream (1944), co-director
      A Boy, a Girl and a Dog (1946), director
      My Father's House, director, about a Holocaust survivor immigrating to Mandatory Palestine made with writer Meyer Levin
      The Kid from Cleveland (1949)
      Illegal Entry (film) (1949), an immigration themed crime drama
      The Fighter (1952 film) director, a film about the Mexican Revolution
      Walls of Fire (1971), about Mexican muralists
      The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art (1974), narrated by Oraon Welles, (nominated for best documentary film at the 47th Academy Awards winner)
      Acting: Lee Strasberg and the Actors Studio (1981) about Lee Strasberg and the Actors Studio


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