Josef von Sternberg

Jonas Sternberg was born in 1894 in Vienna into a Jewish family; he lived between Vienna and New York, where he settled with his mother in 1908. Employed around 1911 by a film company in New Jersey, where he cleaned and repaired prints, he became an assistant and took the name Josef von Sternberg. Having left for Hollywood in 1923, he directed his first film in the mid-twenties, joined Paramount, then was summoned to Berlin by Ufa in 1929. In all, he made seven films with Marlene Dietrich. He died in California in 1969.

In the catalogue 2

• CinemaThe Blue AngelDer blaue EngelJosef von Sternberg · 1930Cinema
• CinemaShanghai ExpressJosef von Sternberg · 1932Cinema