Erich Pommer

Who was Erich Pommer?

Erich Pommer was a German-born film producer and executive. Pommer was the most important person in the German and European Film Industries in the 1920s and 1930s. He was involved in the German Expressionist film movement during the silent era as the head of production at Decla, Decla-Bioscop and from 1924 to 1926 at Ufa responsible for many of the best known movies of the Weimar Republic such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler, Die Nibelungen, Michael, Der Letzte Mann / The Last Laugh, Variety, Tartuffe, Manon Lescaut Faust, Metropolis and The Blue Angel. He later worked in American exile before returning to Germany for a time after the war.