Ernest Kleinberg Films: The Rhine, River of Europe

The story of Father Rhine. One of Europe's communal treasures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzICcKKMywI

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A documentary survey of the geography and economics of the Rhine River. Twenty years ahead of its time in foreseeing that the Rhine would become an artery of a united Europe. Produced in 1972.


Ernest Kleinberg (1910-1980) was born in Breslau, Germany. He grew up in Vienna, where he became a photographer for American news agencies and Life magazine. In March 1938 he was arrested by the Gestapo for photographing Hitler's march into Vienna. Released six weeks later thanks to pressure from American friends, he escaped to New York where he resumed photography and rescued his entire family from Nazi Austria. In the early 1950s he became a self-taught film producer. He subsequently completed more than 25 documentary movies.

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