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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.
- Nico Hofmann (CEO)
- Bertelsmann
- December 18, 1917; 105 years ago, Berlin, Germany
DEFA (Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft) was the state-owned film studio of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) throughout the country's existence. Since 2019, DEFA's film heritage has been made accessible and licensable on the PROGRESS archive platform.
- 1992
- East Berlin
- 17 May 1946
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UFA, German motion-picture production company that made artistically outstanding and technically competent films during the silent era. Located in Berlin, its studios were the best equipped and most modern in the world.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Deutsche Filmaktiengesellschaft (DEFA) is founded the following year under authority of the Soviet Military Administration. The rest of the Third Reich film assets remain in the Western ...
The Ufa-Rhombus. Ufa was Germany's national film company, both in self-image and in market dominance. With close connections to the state, the Deutsche Bank and conservative financing groups, Ufa dominated the German film industry from 1917 to 1945.
The story of the Universum-Film AG, popularly known as "Ufa," is inextricably bound to the history of German cinema in the first half of the twentieth century. As perhaps no other film company in relation to its national film culture, Ufa's changing fortunes were a barometer of the economic, political, aesthetic, and ideological struggles that ...
UFA GmbH films. Films made or distributed by the German studio Universum Film AG. The company also operated production subsidiaries in France and Czechoslovakia.
