1948. On the set of Sleep, My Love, Hazel Brooks discusses the scene she’s about to film with director, Douglas Sirk. He is one of the many German émigrés who have left Germany to escape the Nazis. His glossy melodramas of the 1950s such as Magnificent Obsession, All That Heaven Allows and Imitation of Life will be box-office hits in spite of the critics. But come the 1960s and 1970s, they will be re-evaluated and will influence directors including Quentin Tarantino.
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