Billy Wilder Inviato Speciale
Chronicles from Berlin and Vienna between the two wars
The unpublished and hilarious youth articles by one of the greatest directors of all time. Full of personal reports and reflections, and of rare photos that capture Wilder and his circle during these formative years, this unmissable volume showcases the flourishing voice of a young journalist who would later become one of the greatest filmmakers in the history of cinema. .
In the early 1920s, young Billie (not yet Billy) Wilder earns his living doing small jobs and writing articles for Viennese newspapers. His dream is to go to the United States, even if his vocation for cinema is not yet clear. This begins to show itself when Billie moves from Vienna to Berlin: and while she continues to deal with jazz and variety shows, she begins her career as a screenwriter for the film Sunday Men, of which she recounts the adventurous making.
The texts collected in this volume are a testimony to the versatility of the young Wilder: unconventional reportages (Venice, Genoa and Monte Carlo), short surreal and satirical stories, paradoxes, provocations, film and theatrical reviews, surveys on the publishing market, interviews with divas silent as Asta Nielsen but also to dancers, sorcerers and newspaper sellers. A first-hand account of Europe between the two wars in which his caustic humor emerges, a great love for reality and an ability to grasp the small and large weaknesses of human beings. Wilder often speaks in the first person, as when he recounts his exhausting and exhilarating experience as a paid dancer in a Vienna hotel. And it is easy to see, in transparency, the talent of the one who will become one of the greatest directors of the twentieth century.
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