Mark Sorkin

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Mark Sorkin , also Marc Sorkin (born March 14, 1902 in Vilnius , Russian Empire ; † February 25, 1986 in New York , USA ) was a Russian-American film editor and director .

Life

Mark Sorkin began his professional career in Berlin in the early 1920s. He learned his trade as assistant director to GW Pabst , whom he helped out from Countess Donelli (1924) until 1930. He also did the editing for the majority of these films . During the transition from silent to sound film, Sorkin was allowed to direct his first film, Moral at midnight , under Pabst's artistic supervision . The German sound film had only a few commissions ready for him. In 1932 Sorkin cut the German version of the film The Five Cursed Gentlemen , which was made in Paris the previous year, and shared the direction of the crime film Participant Does Not Answer with the Austrian Rudolf Katscher .

After the National Socialists came to power , Sorkin, who was active in France at the time, did not return home to Germany. In Paris he was given another film direction under Pabst's supervision in 1933. Pabst also let him work as a cutter for Mademoiselle Docteur in 1937 . In early 1938 he assisted Pabst in his production of Le drame de Shanghaï . Under the artistic supervision of Pabst, Sorkin was allowed to stage L'esclave blanche in 1938/39 . Shortly afterwards he was hired again as editor for Lilian Harvey's music romance Serenade .

After the German invasion of France, Mark Sorkin and his Jewish mother fled from the German troops to the unoccupied French Morocco . From Casablanca both embarked for New York in 1942. In the USA, Mark Sorkin found it difficult to get one or the other job as a film editor. In the mid-1950s, Sorkin withdrew from the active film business.

Filmography

as editor, unless otherwise stated

literature

  • Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. Acabus-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 472 f.
  • Jan-Christopher Horak : Vanishing Point Hollywood. A documentation on film emigration after 1933. 2nd, expanded and corrected edition. MAkS, Münster 1986, ISBN 3-88811-303-2 , p. 142 (also: Münster, Universität, Dissertation, 1984).

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personal data
SURNAME Sorkin, Mark
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sorkin, Marc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-American film editor and film director
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Vilnius , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1986
Place of death New York , USA