"Curtis Bernhardt (15 April 1899 \u2013 22 February 1981) was a German film director born in Worms, Germany, under the name Kurt Bernhardt. He trained as an actor in Germany, and performed on the stage, before starting as a film director in 1926. Other films include A Stolen Life (1946) and Sirocco (1951).Bernhardt made films in Germany from 1925 until 1933, when he was forced to flee the Nazi regime \u2014 who briefly had him arrested \u2014 because he was Jewish."@en .