The german film company is one hundred years old. For much of that time its been a german bracket rivaling. Wrote film history. For it what is the essence of the great ship that sailed through so many stormy seas in the past one hundred g. Is. Reported to be implemented id suggest that. If i think of i think of germany. And the month he does its the mercedes of Production Companies filming with was a sign of prestige. It was a melting pot for a creative symbol in and for the whole world. In nine hundred seventeen germany was losing the First World War. General admission looting doff identified the culprit the new medium of film. The germans had become a target of mockery in british and french cinemas. Didnt offer wanted his own version of a big film company to produce propaganda for germany. The father i regard the implementation is an urgent part of the war effort and i call for quick idealization loot and all of. That was effectively the founding charter of that. At the time there were many small Film Companies in germany each sailing under its own flag. They made cameras round cinemas and produce films but moved off had bigger ideas the general roped a consortium of big german firms into doing their patching up to judi dench a bank bosch and a. G. Made Funds Available the Small Companies were to be merged into one crowd ship. Only vassal film acting as a shaft who for a short was to conquer the cinematic seven seas for the german kaiser. Was. Part of the over empire i was the studio complex in bottles back palmer a decorated officer a monarchist and a jew became the head of production he was the almost ideal appointment for the who for board with its German Nationalist agenda. The head of state of the young Weimar Republic was free to wish a about a social democrat he visited the studios during the filming of and live. Rounds lubitsch was the director for stars emil yawning and any porton played the lead roles. The spa seans orders about a bit wanted to grace the Famous Company on location with his visit reportedly he lost his hat there and emil yearnings picked it up for him saying we majestys have to stick together i dont know whether a bird as president really like being addressed his majesty advice president read my post it underscore to the. A film by fritz lang very german material realized by a brilliant director. Is doing this first place and this delivered on the promise of producing a german legend with german actors in a German Company we can really sense the National Consciousness and perhaps somewhat excessive National Pride and feel light of the bush target and that large towards mecca. It was all innovative large scale and expensive a mix of copper and wagner. The dragon was the technical attraction inside it was six men who were notified by fritz lang by telephone when the dragon was to spew fire. Soon and for sailed into financial trouble waters producer eric palmer left and went to hollywood who for a doctor on to competitors paramount and Metro Goldwyn meyer for Financial Support the result was a german american conglomerate to firm it. Over hopes that the merger would help more of its films to be shown in america that didnt happen and its financial situation remained difficult. In one hundred twenty seven nazis were fighting in the streets against communists. Unemployment was on the rise once again further with all its expenses faced bankruptcy. Dacha bank sort of by a man found out that who can back media star of the. Weimar republic and an ally of adolphine. Dacha bank placed him at the helm of that one for ship. With hugenberg as the Majority Shareholder over move even further to the right his first major conflict clinch was firmly in control of the rudder. He cancelled the contract with the us companies it had been a huge loss. Now the artists no longer had control but the bookkeepers. Klitschko built for sound Proof Studios in bottles back known as the torn chords he also secured the return of ash palmer who brought musicals with him from america the future belonged to sound film musicians cinema owners and actors protested. There was. I in. And on that. But the talkies launched new stars director yells a funk schanberg made trial recordings with a little known actress in bottles back. You know right i think its a good. Place been. Blue angel was a special film in many regards not least for a director from the United States joseph and sternberg was flown in it was meant as a vehicle for a meal yawning but in fact it became alina did just filmed it made her a global star its a bit. There. I mean yeah things still acted with his facial expressions like in a silent movie. Every scene was filmed first in german and then in english mollenhauer hired a language teacher yangs thought he didnt need one. Yet. I think then. I wish i had. Did life under tank shell or a musical film made in germany. The new genre help for the offer to turn around its fortunes and begin making a profit again. But if. You follow him take this palmer discovered that these musicals enabled a new export strategy with different versions yes you could work on the same sets and tell the same story using Different Actors in french english and sometimes italian news management after unishe thats. What you got. The film address the economic crisis of the late twentys a heavyweight subject in a lightweight manner that was the office trademark during the golden years of the Weimar Republic. Once known. As. The author marketed Lilian Harvey and villi furch as a dream team they were highly paid and highly controlled even in their private lives. I know this because i just. Insist on this please stick with it you provide additional overhead an image to sell and to do that he controlled or even created the stars personal stories affairs questionable liaisons were out so i thought homosexuality although some of his biggest stars were gay was an absolute. Absolute towies yet and over movie star would soon have to be hard as crop steel tough as leather a solitary leader like frederick the great in one thousand nine hundred thirty the flute concert of salsa will see adopted an alarmingly warlike tone the end of the Weimar Republic was approaching us but i think. Yeah they gave me a legal look like schools and for that ill find. Which was a strong one or that this is a lot like me pushing now machines all the other gets. Just a little pain all because of you. Who for always had National Films in his production plan that could be a period prussian film or a film about the First World War and these films were advertised as National Films what had always been the underlying character of over now came into the open. Offers National Films helped to dig the grave of democracy. He was about michelle who for always had nationalistic views most of the men on the board and in management had served in the military really tioga didnt aspire this was not a company that aimed to be subversive on the contrary. Defied emil georg fun styles who had been the first head of who for in one nine hundred seventeen introduced hitler into. Industrialist circles in the early thirties. Alfred hugenberg became minister for Economic Affairs in his first cabinet. The footboard sent to congratulate three telegram. The film for the new regime had already being produced three days after hitler came to power hugenberg invited him and vice chancellor fun popping to the berlin premiere of dawn a nationalist submarine drama. How are you going i am. Come its fun googles thought the film is very good in parts you particularly like the lines spoken by real force or maybe we germans are bad at knowing how to live. And i actually. Asked. If i was i think he loved it but he felt the presentation of the home front was as he put it a bit house and garden not aggressive enough. During the nazi period was based in berlin scholars and. Pressured by gerbils the company soon fired his jewish employees. Who first best talents had to leave producer eric palmer. Actor friends caught. The directors billy wilder. And robert c. Old mark. Actress elizabeth bag now. Actor peter lorie. Actor could go on and they werent the only ones. Director fritz lang no longer wanted to stay but propaganda minister gerbils still wasnt happy he wanted the companys total submission. He does not have the fuehrer is approval. By order the press to attack on all fronts has got a shot coming until it is ours. Glitch and they are already softening up and this is just the beginning those idiots from the German National peoples party. Girls bought up bags for shares for a good price now he was in charge and could restructure the ship as he pleased clinch could only stand by and watch actors materials scripts and dialogues the propaganda minister and film enthusiastic now ruled all of this personally. The board didnt appreciate this micromanagement its already as a threat to its business especially abroad. The view of the lifes chamber of thirlmere that the production and sales of films can be ordered from above continues to fill us with serious concern for the development of our business. Gerbils was involved in writing the script for the concept a clever mix of newsreel and acted scenes during the opening of the one nine hundred thirty six Olympic Games in berlin the smart ills of falls in love with a dashing colorado writes i mean. You can. Get it i didnt even think. Of it. They fall in love but lose each other years later they find each other again thanks to the armies of concept or request concert radio show. That my. Exclusive only to be on. A tear jerker set against a backdrop of war the message war is inevitable bush concept was one of the most successful and for films of the nazi period. His career also began with propaganda films guna mulla started acting in film roles in the bubbles back studio when he was just twelve this was his last interview. They have the answer i started with advertising films with the and then i made short propaganda films with your proposals and with ludwig schmitz. That you. Think would but i dont wouldnt even if i am for the first problem would go through. All of. You. To finish as a tale of us if i look at the image of you it was decorum all the men wore dark suits white shirts and silver ties and ones who got caught. In the young eagles going to played an apprentice scheme to build cockpits for bombers. But not my kind of life because. You know. The young hottie crew played an equally enthusiastic role. In a propaganda film from pure and simple. Like yelling and shite and going to tidy. It to get. To the concert havent read it or put it in public before the one who has no such thing. We were all about sixteen tough i met was gung leave a night out and said when were done here i have to go to the hitler Youth Training camp he said ill give you a contract maybe thatll help us and thats how i got a contract not because i was such a good actor for such a keep me from military service full of it didnt work though and mists cannot stand. The board complained that too many for employees had gone to war or being killed in action six hundred forced laborers were assigned to the company they were treated very badly as was usual in german companies. Go bills wanted to see the world of cholera the companys own House Department had been experimenting with color since one thousand nine hundred eighty one. That loves this was his first color film and i am. Good at my own. Next the animated switch to color. To mess in on compared to hollywood that was lagging way behind as far as color film was concerned it was googles personal ambition to catch up. The first german feature film was only made in the summer of one hundred thirty nine minutes at no one under i see the yes and option for him simply in. The first stuck to its guns even in color the film was a period musical with jaunty military personnel and sourcing woman. He started seeing and. It. Was fun that it is all i was. Was punished. By a mission. To him. There and deadly abusing filming it became clear that the color quality wasnt uniform. Certain film consignments varied in quality and hardly. To leave home and unfair in the field and another problem was that one of the lead actors Carl Stepanek emigrated to england during filming how stepanek they havent had the a but he had to be replaced he had la and his scenes had to be shot again because its here and i just missed enough good plate we had. Just purchased didnt get it done and i know this job is very good back to business at. This time of the mission and as yet. I must insist on interest. You dont want to start. This kind. Never mind the regime you for always focused on heartbreak and romance. To incent up a how to ensure in pension debt that it had great material but as i knew it he wrote the script and submitted it to what it was stated but a doctor he was asked to come in and was told weve read your script very carefully and with interest lees but please tell us where in your script is the. When titus tell his hoof shaped he was startled to hear such a word in such a place. But such a gesture he didnt know what to say it was it was his and i as a man he was told you dont have to show it but we have to be able to assume that women are there and that lovemaking is happening when dust all very correct that was done to collect dust study before. Fight holland made the last propaganda film for gerbils callback and drama with ten thousand extras germany meanwhile was in ruins. Its what it was the biggest flop in the history of the over during the twelve weeks until the war ended off this film was seen by hardly anyone is these a few cole naca seen bowden but production costs amounted to several millions in from me other than million and. Goebbels much i was better to die than surrender newish day august says it in the film. At the back and i dont doubt. That i most want to go there either. I like i look up and look at it like the video did. For gerbils and hitler the scenes were too realistic they demanded numerous edits to million of life smocks worth of filming life scattered around the cutting room while bombs were raining down on. The off a building caught fire a secret operation was launched to rescue files and film footage before but when found the big man it. Leaving the sinking ship. Once the war ended the do. Laurie those were definitely over tourist allies decided the company had to be broken up each Occupied Zone of germany would see small film boats floating again. In the soviet zone the day fire was launched the accompanying dinghy was manned by apparatchiks ensuring everything was politically correct defy was a communist version of the. Roof of our interest to actually hoover was a studio in which films had been made from the initial idea to the premiere lived. Defer adopted the same system it created a huge institution with two and a half thousand employees that were a film could be made from its inception to its final release could. Be supreme year between twenty and. The biggest chunk of Office Assets was in battles back the soviet military government ensured that production soon started up again here. Going stouter was the first to film in battles back after nine hundred forty five a story someone needs to know my face even a lot of damage talking about. Murderers among us is the story of a nazi mass murderer the soviets approved of that and the old rule for lived on in the workmanship. When it when he could as soon to get kony if indeed she did his films are into it when i think of hildegard can a fan train the story as a concentration camp survivor with her bright face in direct lighting i can see very clearly that day for i had taken on a lot of the oversight of lightings would see for the first year i did before the push could be because. Of the illustrator on the other hand i can also see that with the ruins everywhere in elements of expression is cinema from the Weimar Republic found their way into this day for films and thats no surprise either because the set designers who worked on the first day of a film were part of the old guard over in bubbles where good as you wish theyd worked with fritz lang and the directors and during the Weimar Republic and of course the nazi period wouldnt they salvage what they could and put it into a day for an entire city for he duplicate. The show down when the traumatized soldier holds his former captain to account is grand old a cinema. Six hundred as these men are. Sent to shawn i dont buy this kinda. When she wants. To show us. Each one of us on a vacation assumption right up to june. The studios in temple whole fuera in west berlin and therefore under the control of the western powers they were more hesitant when it came to rebuilding the Film Industry. So if not us not going to film clubs industry just as in billion that is a challis get off its your feet of a kind of dodgy good stuff and being on film and before. The a diver volunteers palmer has to give you on the eve of what its saying yes i mean because i feel part of the on top of its year at the of gravity field ill buy it in the west on it to bring. The idea turf in politike city film policy of the allies was aimed at destroying the industry for political reasons. Thats and they wanted to smash the nazi legacy while at the same time keeping this market open for american production my conscious products or. The allies band called bag and other propaganda films today twenty of the three hundred for films from the nazi period can only be shown with restrictions. On the files from the burning of the headquarters had ended up in this is a bad land the hills north of hannover. The gender advancement holds castle was the reef founding of the its a story like a harmless little film but one with bite. That first former office staff came to valinor acting as if the Company Still existed. They had letter paper printed they advertise for film editors in the films and on the posters they had the swastikas painted over and covered abracadabra. Suddenly all these films were deemed not survived. Things got exciting in the castle cellar where the files were stored the allies Commission Trustees to sort out the finances a young man studied the files down here he was supposed to help liquidate the company. On a how could do the opposite defying the will of the allies and with the help of the art in our government. One of our t. Course in fact on display adenauer government but also the major parties in the bundestag viewed film as a medium fish shaping opinion on these a survive. Die i think influencing Public Opinion was a crucial aspect of the early west german film policy enough in politic ethical england as the public. At the behest of the allies the German Parliament passed a law in one thousand nine hundred fifty three intended to break up the ufa but chancellor cannot adenauer found a loophole. This there were exceptions to the order to break it up and those exceptions were implemented. After this and have it wasnt sold to the highest bidder. Originally there was a rule that no one was allowed to buy more than one studio all three cinemas. But exceptions were possible the buyers took advantage of all these exceptions they were explicitly encouraged to do so by the government and by the parliament and off wanted to sponsor taxes. Hellmann use of apps the head of Deutsche Bank got a call from the Chancellors Office adenauer sold over to daunt bank for a third of its value it was a good deal for the bank just as it had been when it was first launched. Thanks to our now and Deutsche Bank are no how come we came the captain of the new film ship that in one nine hundred fifty six once again bore the big old name a ship meant to serve the German Government and don chipp bank just like in the old days. In the old. Opened new cinema and he moved from bargain holds to doesnt offer very build up a new headquarters he distributed and produced movies. In one thats usually dont ask me if i could go. After i dont have them after till i think thats really going to play the son of louisa all of us in his first post war film they were the new for dream team. He said. This to me the capable business woman widow and mother of three sons overcome. All the hardships. Of this kind and its demand on that thank you for you know for my son and then she even finds new love oh yeah. He can go. Get me your house. And if i live now isnt that. Good enough for the city i just want to also probably be a go. At the love you guys. Got me was. That the film was going to mother could have been made for the art in our governments family ministry. Does a famous moment in this film isnt mama fabulous it was a slip up really i was lambasted in the press and because when the great releases its first film and then its such a trivial entertainment movie they shouldnt have done it was it had been his mom tough. The film was a flop but on know how good the Company Captain was unfazed. Is like me it has strong legs nothing will capsize it. How his next project was an expensive international coproduction. The young the last beholds nicknamed was discovered by the info and by mario at all. If you would of those who hates me he i heard that black holes didnt like me or want me and we met on a plane he sat down next to me and said im sure youve heard that ive got a problem with you because of the character of lawsky and i want to tell you why when i read the script i imagine someone like Spencer Tracy in that role or u. V. Spencer tracy sorry i knew when i replied hes a man i very much admire and i can also tell you that when i read the death shit i imagine someone like William Holden in the lead as Philip Holden four years of it. And he said one point for you im hotter. If. He. Got his rhymes are there was the answer by the beast but it was a leak i dont know if you can. See that one didnt they sting a chef the most on the browser from the cult of interfere with its own i think its a misnomer. To read even a couple of good most of them a gun to a country. Thats thought the death ship was my way above average for that time physical radical does he hunt cinema would six have to skin or. Dirty ugly monday. But how was. The new firbank on action and young talents good cinema actually but germans were getting comfortable in that television on chance. To stop. When cunts i mean he could say it failed because of the expectations they wanted to continue on the model of the prewar years the golden age of the roof and they wanted to be just as good and that successful but that didnt work and for good reason to certainly from the union. Goofus celebrated despite millions in losses until it became insolvent and was sold by don chipp bank to battles man in one nine hundred sixty four. The federal government paid bettles man a lot of money to keep the rights to the old over films in germany thats how the money our foundation was established it maintains for cinematic heritage to this day. Battles man sold the cinemas in one nine hundred seventy one although they were still called afterwards there was no left inside these days the old logo can only be seen on three remaining theaters. Ben man if you deal consciously with your history and i think we do if you know the dark side but also the great sides of over then its a Proud Company legacy its a real legend in the Film Industry i cant think of any other in germany that had such a long Film Production history like ours from phillips on a very shocked script of anybody because there are very few who can claim such a long creative output. Visualised. Thanks to nico half man the office ship has once again become a well oiled machine often irons its money with shows and soaps but high gloss Event Television restored its reputation. But out. Forgetting the need in seeing enough chloroform in the office once in a potter by military. Cause and. Thats the rule for tradition period dramas from the german empire to the fall of the berlin wall the new offer has told the story of almost every major event you had as if you hadnt finished it off. As it was a purely private nico hoffman move that the big high end dramas were always big historical stories im very interested in these topics and i feel that ive now finished telling those stories because ive done so much in this area there was very much shaped by us but also by my private interest in german history and auto system. The mini series generation war move the offer ship out of its comfort zones. Because it doesnt help us to get off the. It tells the story of five young germans who experience the war not by choice. Tom shelling is one of the young soldiers i sent. In to touch starts off in fear and wonder if im really proud of the film its unassailable in my view what could be better than when films cause controversy. Ive always made films with over that were so captivating and compelling that you really had to think about them and talk about the work that looks like we know we want to hadnt had. The series also portrays polish anti semitism during the war thanks. It doesnt need. As many. Things i think theres a thing as you found text should be a Community Situation if youre not in. The blurring of the lines between victims and perpetrators anger at the polls not to mention the public in america and israel. Does expose on the dance of one thing i wouldnt repeat with generation war is that i now wouldnt go to another country and as a german filmmaker trying to tell parts of polish history from the german perspective i start implementing that sale and as that belongs to the poles ive learned my lesson in that area or maybe ill bring in polish historians to act as consultants but i wouldnt do it like that again for its ornish my mom. Generation war was nonetheless an International Critical and ratings hit i think International Emmy for t. V. Movie miniseries goes to. The International Emmy awards are the oscars of television generation. Who fought is a piece of german history empire third life federal republic it always knew germanys dreams fias hopes and longings thats been its business for one hundred years. Old. Like. The one they got right. But he. Says it. All the time was right. Thats what. To. Learn german with w. Any time any place. Whether with jo jo and her friends. Colleagues the good looking men doing the Christmas Spirit says inspection juggles a floor with printf all over the world. Online and interactive. German to go. And learn german for free with deep w. Just. Happy birthday in good shape return intending smear and you can leave this Amazing Fitness backpack because if youre going from known side needs visit on the web and good coaching paths to turning the most favorite homelands into likes to call fame or maybe well get a chance to do so called coach knight. Good luck oh no. Please. Move. To. Atlanta player lintner luck. Played. Youre watching t. V. News coming to you live from the new escalation looms in Northern Syria pro Syrian Government forces enter the town of offering to help the kurds defend against a turkish offensive turkish president out of one sails stays out of book says state powell or pay a heavy price will go a lot to stumble. Also in syria the shelling intensive pause and Eastern Ghouta monitors say more than two hundred fifty people have been killed in the damascus suburbs since sunday