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The Blue Angel
- "The Blue Angel" (1930), now a classic of German cinema, is perhaps the film that best reflects the Ufa's first years of film production and established its international reputation.
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- Nationalization — from The Ufa to The UFI
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On December 18, 1917 the Universum-Film AG (limited company) was entered into Berlin's commercial register with stock capital of 25 million marks. Founded with state support, Ufa made targeted use of existing resources, buying up several existing film companies with the help of its financial cushion. And soon it began to work on its artistic reputa...
In the mid-1920s, by which time Ufa employed 5,000 people, losses in the tens of millions led Ufa to sign the Parufamet Contract with the American studios Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The joint distribution company was supposed to distribute 60 films a year in Germany, 20 each from Paramount, Ufa and MGM. However, the agreement brought just t...
In 1929, four years after the failure of the "Tri-Ergon section of Ufa", the sound film had triumphed once and for all. The Ufa's first "one-hundred-percent" sound film, "Melodie des Herzens" ("Melody of the Heart"), with Dita Parlo and Willy Fritsch, premiered on December 16, 1929, and shortly after that "Der blaue Engel" ("The Blue Angel", 1929/3...
Adolf Hitler's appointment as Reich Chancellor on January 30, 1933 put an end to the German republic. With political power moving into the hands of the National Socialists and propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels installed as the "patron of German film", the pressure on Jews in Ufa's staff increased. In the spring of 1933, unresisting, the company f...
In 1937 the Nazi government intensified its activities with regard to the covert nationalization of the film industry. The goal was secretly to buy up shares of the companies in question and become controlling partners without claiming a seat on the supervisory or executive board. In the course of this policy, Hugenberg was "bought out" of Ufa, whi...
While Hollywood had successfully produced Technicolor films since the mid-1930s, the comedy "Frauen sind doch bessere Diplomaten" ("Women Are Better Diplomats") was Ufa's first color feature film, premiering in 1941 in Agfacolor. And of course the image project for the Ufa's 25th jubilee in 1942 could only be a color film after all, it was supposed...
These "weapon producers" worked until Germany’s defeat in 1945 finally brought the end of World War Two in Europe. While on all sides everything was reduced to rubble and the theaters were closed, the cinemas played on to the very end, and the Ufa studios in Tempelhof and Babelsberg went on making films. Hans Deppe made the family comedy "Wie sagen...
Jan 2, 2018 · UFA, in full Universum Film-Aktien Gesellschaft, was a German motion-picture production company that made artistically outstanding and technically competent films during the silent era. The Cinematheque in Berlin holds currently, and until April 2018, an exhibition celebrating the 100th anniversary of UFA.
UFA Film & TV Produktion is formed in 1991 and, under the management of Wolf Bauer, Norbert Sauer and Axel Reickis, soon develops into Germany’s largest production company.
During the Second World War, its empire stretched over the territories under German occupation. Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels consolidated the entire German film industry under the name Ufa Film GmbH (Ufi) in 1942. Ufa’s last big production was Veit Harlan’s 1944 morale-booster Kolberg.
Siegfried Kracauer was the first to recognize the UFA’s role in German film and history, stating unequivocally that “the genesis of Ufa testifies to the authoritarian character of Imperial Germany”, developing from this thesis his reflection theory of Germany’s fall from Caligari to Hitler.
The first film made by Universum-Film AG, a short documentary film called Am Seidenen Faden, came out in 1955. In 1958, the first UFA feature film Stefanie came out: it starred Sabine Sinjen and was directed by Josef von Baky, who had directed the UFA's large-scale 25th anniversary film Münchhausen in 1942.
