Germany, Film Director April 26, 1897 – January, 14, 1987.
Douglas Sirk (born Hans Detlef Sierck; 26 April 1897 – 14 January 1987) was a German film director best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s.
If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason.
Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films.
In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.
At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political.
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