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UFA Film & TV Produktion is formed in 1991 and, under the management of Wolf Bauer, Norbert Sauer and Axel Reickis, soon develops into Germany’s largest production company. UFA begins its ...
film. UFA, German motion-picture production company that made artistically outstanding and technically competent films during the silent era. Located in Berlin, its studios were the best equipped and most modern in the world. It encouraged experimentation and imaginative camera work and employed such directors as Ernst Lubitsch, famous for ...
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UFA GmbH, shortened to UFA (German: [ˈuːfa] ⓘ), is a film and television production company that unites all production activities of the media conglomerate Bertelsmann in Germany. [ 1 ] The original UFA was established as Universum-Film Aktiengesellschaft on December 18, 1917, as a direct response to foreign competition in film and propaganda.
Jun 30, 2000 · 451pp. US$19.95. (Review copy supplied by California University Press) Uploaded 30 June 2000. The story of the Universum-Film A.G., popularly known as Ufa, is indelibly bound to the history of Germany’s cinema. As perhaps no other film company in relation to its national film culture, the UFA’s changing fortunes are a barometer of the ...
- Taking The Lead from The Start
- A Crisis and A New Beginning
- The Ufa Sound Film
- Ufa Under Hitler
- Nationalization — from The Ufa to The UFI
- Jubilee in Color: “Münchhausen”
- Filming Up to The End
On December 18, 1917 the Universum-Film AG (limited company) was entered into Berlin's commercial register with stock capital of 25 million marks. Founded with state support, Ufa made targeted use of existing resources, buying up several existing film companies with the help of its financial cushion. And soon it began to work on its artistic reputa...
In the mid-1920s, by which time Ufa employed 5,000 people, losses in the tens of millions led Ufa to sign the Parufamet Contract with the American studios Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The joint distribution company was supposed to distribute 60 films a year in Germany, 20 each from Paramount, Ufa and MGM. However, the agreement brought just t...
In 1929, four years after the failure of the "Tri-Ergon section of Ufa", the sound film had triumphed once and for all. The Ufa's first "one-hundred-percent" sound film, "Melodie des Herzens" ("Melody of the Heart"), with Dita Parlo and Willy Fritsch, premiered on December 16, 1929, and shortly after that "Der blaue Engel" ("The Blue Angel", 1929/3...
Adolf Hitler's appointment as Reich Chancellor on January 30, 1933 put an end to the German republic. With political power moving into the hands of the National Socialists and propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels installed as the "patron of German film", the pressure on Jews in Ufa's staff increased. In the spring of 1933, unresisting, the company f...
In 1937 the Nazi government intensified its activities with regard to the covert nationalization of the film industry. The goal was secretly to buy up shares of the companies in question and become controlling partners without claiming a seat on the supervisory or executive board. In the course of this policy, Hugenberg was "bought out" of Ufa, whi...
While Hollywood had successfully produced Technicolor films since the mid-1930s, the comedy "Frauen sind doch bessere Diplomaten" ("Women Are Better Diplomats") was Ufa's first color feature film, premiering in 1941 in Agfacolor. And of course the image project for the Ufa's 25th jubilee in 1942 could only be a color film after all, it was supposed...
These "weapon producers" worked until Germany’s defeat in 1945 finally brought the end of World War Two in Europe. While on all sides everything was reduced to rubble and the theaters were closed, the cinemas played on to the very end, and the Ufa studios in Tempelhof and Babelsberg went on making films. Hans Deppe made the family comedy "Wie sagen...
The Ufa's final battle. Germany was already losing the war when the Ufa invested huge sums in this production: Veit Harlan's "Kolberg" (1945) was the most expensive German film of World War II ...
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Dec 18, 2017 · 12/18/2017 December 18, 2017. It is the most famous German film production company: Founded in 1917, Ufa produced films that remain great classics — as well as works of propaganda for the Nazis.
