Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar ViennaA 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, translated into English for the