In a program from 1955, introducing a screening of Juarez (1939) at Stockholms studentfilmstudio (an influential film club for students at Stockholm University), its director William Dieterle was described as a “tendensdiktare,” a word I cannot directly translate but which means something like a poet who is addressing contemporary issues. Not bad. Dieterle is today to some extent lost in the crowd, and not a single book in English has been written about him,
William Dieterle
William Dieterle
William Dieterle
In a program from 1955, introducing a screening of Juarez (1939) at Stockholms studentfilmstudio (an influential film club for students at Stockholm University), its director William Dieterle was described as a “tendensdiktare,” a word I cannot directly translate but which means something like a poet who is addressing contemporary issues. Not bad. Dieterle is today to some extent lost in the crowd, and not a single book in English has been written about him,