Fred zinnemann autobiography sample

As you would expect from an A-class film director and cultured, worldly gentleman - an A-class autobiography.
Full of fascinating insights into the world of filmmaking with concise, intelligent commentary regarding each of his films.

No meandering or self-fulfilling blah, just interesting and arresting observations about his career as a cameraman, documentary and short subject filmmaker, and eventually becoming one of the most distinguished and highly acclaimed film directors of his generation.

And with just enough personal peeks into his private and family life - from his youth growing up in pre-Nazi Austria and his eventual path to America and Hollywood (as an extra in the original 1930 "All Quiet on the Western Front") and working with famous documentary filmmaker Robert Flaherty before landing at M-G-M.

- to allow the reader to understand more of the man behind the camera.

Not really your standard auto