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Filmmaker · Israel

Herbert Kline

Died in 1999

Herbert Kline, born Herbert Klein in Chicago in 1909 and raised in Davenport, Iowa, edited a theatre journal, staged plays by Clifford Odets and was active on the left. A documentary maker, he filmed the Spanish Civil War, then the Sudeten crisis, whose footage he got out of Prague by posing as a Nazi sympathiser, and the invasion of Poland; in Mexico in 1941 he made The Forgotten Village, on a text by John Steinbeck. Blacklisted in the fifties, he returned to cinema in the seventies and died in 1999.

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