Terra Film
The Berlin Terra film was one of the largest film production companies of the 1930s.
Business
The company first established in late 1919 as a GmbH was converted into a public company in October 1920. On July 19, 1922, the Terra acquired studios and photocopying of Eiko -Film GmbH in Berlin- Marie Felde.
1930 took over the Swiss Family Scotoni - which owned the largest theater in the country with the Apollo in Zurich - for 1.2 million Reichsmarks the Terra film. Many of the 40 films from the era of Ralph Scotoni ( the 1933 member of the NSDAP was ) were influenced by Nazi ideas, which was transferred to Swiss materials and locations ( William Tell 1934, The Knight of Pontresina 1934, Hermione and the Upright Seven 1935 ). Since the films but not even grossed production costs, the family Scotoni sold its stake in Terra film in 1935 and retired from the company.
As part of the nationalization of the film industry, Terra was renamed in July 1937 to Terra - Film Art GmbH and was now majority owned by the state Cautio Treuhand GmbH. She produced henceforth in the Tempelhof studios of UFA film art GmbH. In 1942 she became the holding company Ufa -Film GmbH incorporated (UFI ) and retained only formal independence.
From the early 1960s to the 1980s, the West Berlin Terra Film Kunst GmbH entered again as a producer and co-producer of more than 100 films in appearance.
Movies
The first film produced by the Terra, was The Marriage of Figaro (1920, directed by Max Mack ). This was followed by movies like Christian Wahnschaffe (Urban Gad, 1920/21 ), bigamy ( Jaap Speyer, 1927) and Queen Louise (Karl Grune, in 1927/28 ).
Their heyday was the Terra after the transition to the talkies and under National Socialism. Between 1933 and 1944, the Terra produced 120 feature films, including propaganda films like The Riders of German East Africa (1934 ), Hermione and the Upright Seven (1935 ), comrades at Sea ( 1938), Jud Suess (1940 ) and Front Theatre (1942 ) but also successful entertainment films like Circus Renz (1943) and The Feuerzangenbowle (1944).
Directors and producers
House directors of Terra movie were Boleslaw Barlog, Géza von Bolváry, Peter Paul Brauer, Erich Engels, Kurt Hoffmann, Helmut Käutner, Wolfgang Liebeneiner, Roger Norman, Rudolf van der Noss, Heinz Paul, Arthur Maria Rabenalt Günther Rittau, Heinz Rühmann, Herbert Selpin, Hans Steinhoff and Helmut Weiss.
Among the producers who own "production groups " talked at the Terra movie, belong Helmut Beck ( Moselfahrt with Monika ), Gustaf ( Friedemann Bach), Edward Kubat ( Dr. Crippen on board The Golden Spider ), Otto Lehmann ( Jew Suss, front Theatre ), Heinz Rühmann ( the Florentine hat, Quax, the Crash pilot, I entrust to my wife, Quax in Africa, Feuerzangenbowle ), Viktor von Struve ( Opera Ball, Rosen in Tirol, Andreas Schlüter, the bat), EC Techow (Rembrandt ), Hans Tost ( Hey, you know Korff yet?, We make music, Great Freedom No. 7 ) and Walter Tost ( In the name of the people, blood brothers, Circus Renz ).