Erich Pommer

July 20, 1889 — Hildesheim, Germany

Erich Pommer (20 July 1889 – 8 May 1966) was a German-born film producer and executive. Pommer was perhaps the most powerful person in the German and European film industries in the 1920s and early 1930s.

As producer, Erich Pommer was involved in the German Expressionist film movement during the silent era. As the head of production at Decla Film, Decla-Bioskop, and, from 1924 to 1926, at UFA, Pommer was responsible for many of the best known movies of the Weimar Republic. He later worked in American exile before returning to Germany to help rebuild the German film industry after World War II.

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Metropolis

1927

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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

1920

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Faust

1926

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The Last Laugh

1924

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The Blue Angel

1930

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Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler

1922

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Jamaica Inn

1939

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Die Nibelungen: Siegfried

1924