Vita-Film

The Vita- film was formed in 1919 as the successor company of the Vienna art film industry of Anton and Luise Kolm.

By 1923, the Vita- film built the still existing and used for film productions Rose Hill movie studios. At the local area was in 1922, will be produced before the final completion of the workshops, the epic film, which were very popular in those years following the American model, " Samson and Delilah ". With lavish sets and costumes, as was usual even with a direct competitor Sascha - Film, the production came to a considerable length and cost of 12 million crowns.

In contrast to Sascha film that was based on U.S. productions, examined the Vita- film contacts to France 's international success. 1923 worked for individual projects, the directors Germaine Dulac ( The dying sun, 1923), Jean Legrand (The House in the Forest, 1923), Severin Mars ( Horoga, 1923), M. Liabel ( The island without love, 1923) and Edouard -Emile Violet ( Clown of Love, 1923) for Vita film. The Belgian director and one of the early realists, Jacques Feyder, turned on the Rose Hill and in Hungary in 1924 "The Picture ", based on a screenplay of the famous writers Jules Romains. The film was released as the last Vita- film production in 1925 in the cinemas.

In 1924, the company, like many other European film production companies went at that time, due to the glut of low-priced but high quality, American films, broke. The Rose Hill studios were taken over in 1933 by Sascha movie.

Productions

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