The title of this encyclopedia origins from a film song composed by Hans May, written by Ernst Neubach and sung by the legendary tenor and actor Joseph Schmidt during their emigration. This specific line resembles the atmosphere many of the people felt who were banished from Germany at that time – especially Jews who fled from the National Socialism and from the home that could no longer be their home. The present work contains around 575 biographies from the emigrated filmmakers. Ten years ago the Hamburger art historian and film scholar Weniger already published the lexicon ‘Das große Personenlexikon des Films’ in eight volumes which nowadays is a recognized standard reference in the field of international film biographies. 2008 the book ‘Zwischen Bühne und Baracke. Lexikon der verfolgten Theater/, Film/ und Musikkünstler 1933 bis 1945‘ followed. The present book is a logical and congenial addition to the last one. The preface is informative and deals with every aspect of the subject in detail. Moreover it outlines the situation of the film artists in the Thirties in Germany and Austria. Weniger also focusses on the effects of the national socialist cultural politics and describes the problems of emigrated artists in their exile countries by using specific examples. Depending on the country they faced very different work conditions. In chapter three Weniger displays the fates of the emigrated film makers. Thereby he describes the most important ones with bio/ and filmographies in detail. Well/known names like Lilian Harvey, Conrad Veidt, Billy Wilder, Elisabeth Bergner and Franz Wachsmann can surely be found in this work. Many still circulating errors could be revealed and eliminated and even more rather unknown facts are given about the time in exile of film makers like Reinhold Schünzel, Franziska Gaal, Richard Eichberg, Detlef Sierck, Curt Goetz oder Ludwig Berger. Even the biographies of people who were rather sporadically active in the field of film, like Berthold Brecht and Victor Barnowsky, receive new and highly interesting aspects. Especially through the introduction of biographies of people, who have never been portrait in so much detail, this book is of particular importance. These people consists of the actors and actresses Josef Almas, Martha Angerstein, Ilse Bois, Grete Freund, Christiane Grautoff, Hilde Jennings, Hannele Meierzak, Lore Mosheim and Hedwig Schlichter, the movie directors Richard Löwenbein and Josef Stein, the documentalist Friedrich Dalsheim, scriptwriters Katrin Holland and Josef Than, the film producer Lothar Stark, as well as the cutters Jean Oser and Mark Sorkin.