Shadows in paradise a Peter Rosen Productions, Inc., WDR-Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln production presented in association with KCET/Los Angeles and Arte ; written and co-produced by Sara Lukinson ; produced and directed by Peter Rosen.

With the exile of 30,000 intellectuals and radicals from Europe by 1939, southern California was briefly transformed into a world culture capital. This profoundly altered the horizons of American music, literature, and theater. Includes the stories of Lion Feuchtwanger, Bertolt Brecht, Thomas Mann, Fritz Lang, Erich Maria Remarque, Bruno Walter, Ernst Toch, Erich Zeisl, Arnold Schoenberg, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Salka Viertel, Hanns Eisler.