Cserépy Film was a German

film production Filmmaking (film production) is the process by which a motion picture is produced. Filmmaking involves a number of complex and discrete stages, starting with an initial story, idea, or commission. It then continues through screenwriting, casti ...

company which operated during the

silent era A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, wh ...

. It was founded by the director

Arzén von Cserépy Arzén von Cserépy (1881–1958) was a Hungary, Hungarian screenwriter, film producer and film director, director who was based in Germany. He ran his own production company Cserépy-Film until it was merged into the larger UFA GmbH, UFA empire. ...

. In 1922, it became affiliated with the much larger Ufa company, and in 1924, it was merged into it entirely.Kreimeier p.93 The company was notable for a number of epics it made, particularly the

Fridericus Rex ''Fridericus Rex'' (German: ''Fridericus Rex - 1. Teil: Sturm und Drang'') is a 1922 German silent historical film directed by Arzén von Cserépy and starring Otto Gebühr, Albert Steinrück and Gertrud de Lalsky. It portrays the life of the ...

series of films about Frederick the Great which enjoyed enormous popularity with Weimar German audiences.

References

Bibliography

* Kreimeier, Klaus. ''The UFA Story: A Story of Germany's Greatest Film Company 1918-1945.'' University of California Press, 1999. German film studios Film production companies of Germany Mass media companies established in 1919 {{film-company-stub