The DirectorAn artist's life, a pact with the devil, a novel about the dangerous illusions of the silver screen. G. W. Pabst, one of cinema's greatest, perhaps the greatest director of his era: when the Nazis seized power he was filming in France. To escape the horrors of the new Germany, he flees to Hollywood. But under the blinding California sun, the world famous director suddenly looks like a nobody. Not even Greta Garbo, who he made famous, can help him. And