Carl Mayer
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Carl Mayer was an Austrian screenwriter. Mayer wrote or co-wrote the screenplays to The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Haunted Castle, Der Letzte Mann, Tartuffe, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, and 4 Dev
Carl Mayer (c. 1920s)
The grave of Carl Mayer, Highgate Cemetery East
The Blue Light (1932 film)
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The Blue Light is a black-and-white 1932 film directed by Leni Riefenstahl and written by Béla Balázs with uncredited scripting by Carl Mayer. In Riefenstahl's film version, the witch, Junta, played b
Carl Mayer
…as a pacifist, Mayer thought it best to leave Germany when the Nazis came to power. In 1933, shortly after working with Béla Balázs on the script for Das Blaue Licht (1932), directed by Leni Riefenstahl, he moved to London to escape the Nazi regime. In London, he worked as an adviser to the British film industry…
Blue Light