Biography of the Academy Award winning director including dramatic color footage of WWII.Biography of the Academy Award winning director including dramatic color footage of WWII.Biography of the Academy Award winning director including dramatic color footage of WWII.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 2 nominations
Pandro S. Berman
- Self
- (as Pandro Berman)
- Director
- Writer
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- TriviaIn a 2022 interview with Hawk Koch, George Stevens Jr. reflected on the importance of the film in his career: "I think it was actually in 1984 that I did it, not that long after my father had died. I think it remains the most satisfying thing I've ever done, to have been able to do that and really show who he was and what he did and to have it respected."
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Self - Narrator: Centuries ago an artist scrawled on a wall, "Let something of me survive." When my father died, he left these things to me. I looked through them, hoping to learn more about the man I thought I knew best in all the world. Here I found his wartime diary. He had written, "Life is a journey and it's always most interesting when you're not sure where you're going."
- Alternate versionsEdited to approximately 60 minutes for broadcasting on "American Masters".
- ConnectionsEdited from George Stevens' World War II Footage (1946)
Featured review
Written, directed, and narrated by his son. Dad had worked with just all the HUGE big stars. One of the earliest full length films that George senior had directed was Alice Adams, starring Katherine Hepburn. They would make three films together. We watch a whole lot of a couple films by Stevens. Good to see comments from Frank Capra and various other producers and directors. Junior also says Dad was greatly influenced by Triumph of the Will, Hitler's propaganda film, for its style, sharpness, and uniformity. Stevens was also part of the group that recorded color film portions of WW II milestones. Including the D day landing, even at Dachau. Rare-stuff. Some of the scenes from his early films in the 1930s went on for quite a while. Longer than they probably needed to. It's quite interesting, over-all.
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- Runtime1 hour 50 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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By what name was George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1984) officially released in India in English?
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