Real Film or Real-Film was a West German

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company. It was established in 1947 in

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, then part of the

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. Its founders were

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and the Hungarian

Gyula Trebitsch Gyula Trebitsch (3 November 1914 - 12 December 2005) was a German film producer born in Budapest, Hungary. He was nominated in 1956 for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film along with Walter Koppel for their film '' The Captain of Kop ...

. The company released some

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s but gradually switched to concentrate on comedies and musicals. In 1948 an estate in

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was acquired and developed into a modern film studio, with space sometimes rented out to other companies. The company became a stable and economically successful producer in the 1950s.Davidson & Hake p.196 In the 1960s the studio was increasingly used for television production, and Real-Film went out of business by 1965.

References

Bibliography

* Davidson, John & Hake, Sabine. ''Framing the Fifties: Cinema in a Divided Germany''. Berghahn Books, 2007. * Fenner, Angelica. ''Race Under Reconstruction in German Cinema: Robert Stemmle's Toxi''. University of Toronto Press, 2011. German film studios Film production companies of Germany {{film-company-stub