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THE EUROPEAN CINEMA
their reputation almost wholly working outside their own country.
Henri Storck is the outstanding figure in Belgian film production, which is chiefly confined to documentary and interest films centring for the most part about Belgian art, architecture and history with occasional excursions irto the Congo. Storck produced the feature story-documentary Les Maisons de la Misere (1938), photographed by Ferno, a striking indictment of the living conditions of the slum proletariat of the Belgian mining district. He has recently made an interesting study of the Belgian painter Delvaux, and is now engaged on a documentary-biography of Peter Paul Rubens.
One film from pre-war Hungary needs mention here, Georg Hoellering's pictorially superb Hortobagy (1936), a film of horse farming made in the silent style. Paul Fejos's Marie, from the same country, scarcely needs record. Among other European countries, there is reported to be considerable production in Spain since Franco, and some in Portugal, but none has been seen by us. Switzerland during the thirties, proved a haven for anti-Nazi refugees from the German Film Industry and, it is asserted, for some who were not so anti-Nazi either in their opinions or in the capital they brought to finance their work. The outstanding Swiss film before the war was The Eternal Mask (1937), directed by Werner Hochbaum and featuring Olga Tschechowa. This psychoanalytic case history began carefully and intelligently, but degenerated into oversimplification of both neurosis and therapy. Altogether too reminiscent of Dr. Caligari (for which it was indiscriminately praised) it achieved subjective conviction only in the long sequence in which the protagonist loses control over himself. Since the war, Switzerland has been a happy hunting ground for French, British and American producers in search of striking locations and cheap facilities. Lazar Wechsler's two skilful productions, MarieLouise and The Last Chance (the latter an unequal but generally meritorious drama of refugees and allied soldiers)
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