About the Author

Alexander Horwath is the director of the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna, the former director of the Vienna International Film Festival, and the film curator of documenta 12 (2007). He is a member of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, and of the Vienna Secession. Among his publications are books on film curatorship, Michael Haneke, Josef von Sternberg, and American cinema of the 1960s and 70s.

Michael Omasta is the film editor of the weekly Falter, and board member of SYNEMA – Society for Film & Media. He has conducted numerous research projects on filmmakers in exile and (co-)edited film books on Claire Denis, Alexander Hammid, Carl Mayer, Wolf Suschitzky, Peter Lorre, and Josef von Sternberg's The Case of Lena Smith, among others.