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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. The original UFA was established as Universum-Film Aktiengesellschaft on December 18, 1917, as a direct response to foreign competition in film and propaganda.
This is a list of films produced or distributed by the German company Universum Film AG (UFA) founded in 1917 by a merger of several existing companies. It was the largest German studio during the Weimar Republic and continued this dominance during the Nazi era, where it formed part of a cartel along with Bavaria Film, Tobis Film and Terra Film.
TitleRelease DateDirectorNotesFebruary 1918March 1918March 1918April 1918Apr 21, 2024 · In the 1950s, Universum Film AG (UFA) was resurrected from the ashes of what was once the biggest film studio in Germany. It was acquired by Bertelsmann AG in 1964. In 1979, Universum Film began releasing home videos.
Aug 12, 2024 · Universum Film AG (UFA) was the oldest German film studio created in 1917 and produced a lot of worldwide-known films. The studio later went into the control of the Nazi government and continued to work during World War II.
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Paul Davidson, the founder of the Projektions "Union" A.G., became the production head of Ufa, but he left most production decisions to the subsidiary companies, which were still largely independent, while continuing a policy of acquisition. Thus, in 1918 Ufa purchased the May-Film Co. (Joe May), BB-Film (Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers), Gloria (Hanns Li...
Just as Ufa's Dawn anticipated Nazi cinema, its board preempted official Nazi policy: three days before the official Nazi boycott of German Jews was instituted, Ufa fired all of its Jewish employees (29 March 1933). While in the course of 1933 the Propaganda Ministry was established under Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) in order to create a pre censors...
Elsaesser, Thomas. Weimar Cinema and After: Germany's Historical Imaginary. New York: Routledge, 2000. Hull, David Stuart. Film in the Third Reich: A Study of the German Cinema, 1933–1945. Berkeley: University of CaliforniaPress, 1969. Koepenick, Lutz. The Dark Mirror: German Cinema between Hitler and Hollywood. Berkeley: University of CaliforniaPr...
Nov 17, 2017 · Universum-Film AG is founded in December 1917 during World War I as part of an effort to create greater competition against foreign films and as part of the German Empire’s propaganda...
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Jun 30, 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 economic, political, aesthetic, and ideological struggles that make up Germany in the first half of ...
