Gregor Rabinovitch

Gregor Rabinovitch ( born April 2, 1887 in Kiev, † November 12, 1953 in Munich) was an international film producer of Russian origin.

Life

Gregor Rabinovitch emigrated in the 1920s from Russia to Paris. As a film producer, he made ​​his first appearance in 1924 with the film Âme d'artiste, one directed by Germaine Dulac production of the Paris Ciné France, in appearance. Three more films followed. From the remnants of the dissolved Ciné France he founded in 1926 together with Noë Bloch Ciné - Alliance, whose first production Alexander Volkov's famous silent film Casanova. The company produced only three films and presented their work in 1928 again.

Rabinovich went to Berlin and produced there for the Ufa a number of successful films, including The Death Loop ( Arthur Robison, with Werner Krauss and Jenny Jugo, 1928), The Wonderful Lie of Nina Petrovna ( Hanns Schwarz, with Brigitte Helm, 1929), Manolescu - King of the impostor ( Viktor Tourjansky, with Ivan Mosjukin, Henry George and Brigitte Helm, 1929), the white Devil (Alexander Volkov, with Mosjukin and Lil Dagover ), Dolly career ( Anatole Litvak, with Dolly Haas, 1930), Never again love ( Anatole Litvak, with Lilian Harvey, 1930) and secret Service ( Gustav Ucicky, 1931).

Even before her accession in 1933, the film producer Gregor Rabinovitch of the NSDAP was a particular thorn in the side because he was not only Jewish but also Russian. In the campaigns that strained the Nazi press against the " foreign infiltration " of the UFA, was his name - next to that of Erich Pommer - being preferred. Since the UFA - line was the National Socialists will Rabinowitschs work became increasingly difficult. Together with Arnold Pressburger, with whom he had ever worked together since 1928, he left the UFA to start his own production company on January 6, 1932: The Union - talkies, which was renamed the following March in Cine - Allianz talkies GmbH and with multi- language versions of films, in which prominent performers such as Jan Kiepura and Marta Eggert occurred rapidly the young European sound film market conquered.

Under pressure from the Reich Chamber of Film Cine - Allianz GmbH sound film was in 1935 transferred to a liquidation company. On July 24, 1937, the expropriation followed. Rabinovich left Germany and worked mainly in Paris, where in 1934 his old Ciné - Alliance had resumed their work. 1938/39, created the two best movies this film company: Le quai des brumes (directed by Marcel Carné, with Jean Gabin, Michel Simon and Michèle Morgan ) and Sans lendemain ( Max Ophüls, with Edwige Feuillère and Georges Rigaud ). Although Rabinovich 1937 could produce for MGM Robert Z. Leonard's love of film Maytime, ran his efforts to find a lasting partnership with American production companies, especially with the United Artists unsuccessful.

A legal dispute, the Gregory Rabinovich 1950 strained to the lost through the expropriation Cine - Allianz GmbH sound film in the Federal Republic of Germany was unsuccessful. Nevertheless, two years later he founded in Munich a production company with the same name, which could certainly produce a single movie Rabinowitschs death ( The divorced woman, directed by Georg Jacoby, with Marika Rokk and Johannes Heesters, 1953). 1979 also brought by the heirs ( Helene Rabinovich, Fred Pressburger and Nelly Mandel) was dismissed.

Filmography (selection)

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