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      • UniversumFilm AG best known by its signature logo, Ufa was once the largest, most exciting movie company in Europe. Founded by the German High Command as a propaganda medium during World War I, and always central to Germany's nationalistic bigbusiness interests, Ufa was also home to the most innovative talents of the Weimar Republic.
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  2. Founded by the German High Command as a propaganda outfit during World War I, and always central to Germany's nationalistic big-business interests, Ufa was also home to the most innovative talents of the Weimar Republic: Ernst Lubitsch, Marlene Dietrich, Fritz Lang, and Emil Jannings were Ufa stars; Metropolis, The Blue Angel, and Dr. Mabuse wer...

    • Klaus Kreimeier
  3. Klaus Kleimert's The UFA Story charts the rise and fall of Weimar Germany's most famous film studio. Kleimert discusses UFA's origins as a propaganda wing of the Imperial German government, founded during the waning days of World War I to bolster national morale.

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  4. The Ufa Story daringly revises our sense of what Germany and movies were all about in Weimar and under Hitler; it also makes clear why the mythic glow of Ufa's best films...

    • Klaus Kreimeier
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  5. This eye-opening study tells the Ufa story with uncommon verve and intelligence, shrewdly analyzing the forces of art, money, power, politics, and war that created Ufa and that still dominate mass media today. 127 photos.

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    • Klaus Kreimeier
  6. Jul 1, 1996 · In the pages covering Murnau’s FAUST (1926), you’ll learn how the technical effects were executed, and how Ufa barely avoided creating a national scandal when the film’s intertitles written by Germany’s greatest living author at the time, Gerhart Hauptmann, were judged inferior and replaced.

    • Klaus Kreimeier
  7. Dec 18, 2017 · It is the most renowned German film production company: Ufa was founded in 1917 and produced films through the end of World War II, during which time it served as a propaganda tool for the Nazis.