Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, chosen by Tom Stoppard

"A revelation."—Marc Weingarten, Washington Post

Acclaimed film director Billy Wilder’s early writings—brilliantly translated into English for the first time

Before Billy Wilder became the screenwriter and director of iconic films like Sunset Boulevard and Some Like It Hot, he worked as a freelance reporter, first in Vienna and then in Weimar Berlin. Billy Wilder on Assignment brings together more than fifty articles, transla...