Sascha-Film, in full Sascha-Filmindustrie AG and from 1933 Tobis-Sascha-Filmindustrie AG, was the largest

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n film production company of the

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and early

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period.

History

The business was established in 1910 by Alexander Joseph "Sascha", Count Kolowrat-Krakowsky as the ''Sascha-Filmfabrik'' ("Sascha Film Factory") in Pfraumberg in Bohemia, and relocated in 1912 to

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. On 10 September 1918, after the merger with the film distributors Philipp & Pressburger, the business became the ''Sascha-Filmindustrie AG''. With epic films such as

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's '' Sodom und Gomorrha'' (1922) as well as '' Die Sklavenkönigin'' ("The Slave Queen") (1924), the company rose to be one of the most successful European film producers. In 1933 the German enterprise Tobis-Tonbild-Syndikat was amalgamated with the company, known formally from then on as the Tobis-Sascha-Filmindustrie AG. In 1938, in the context of the

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, by which Austria was annexed to the

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, the concern passed into the ownership of the

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government and was re-founded as Wien-Film GmbH. Its best-known director of the period to the end of the war was

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. After the end of the

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the name Sascha-Film was re-established for a couple of decades, and in the 1950s and 1960s produced light entertainment films.

Selected films

* 1912: Die Gewinnung des Erzes am steirischen Erzberg in Eisenerz ("The extraction of ore on the Styrian ore mountain in Eisenerz"; documentary, c. 6 min; direction by Sascha Kolowrat-Krakowsky) * 1912: Kaiser Joseph II. * 1913: Der Millionenonkel (c. 60 min; direction by

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) * 1915: Das andere Ich (direction by

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) * 1916: Wien im Krieg (direction by Heinz Hanus * 1917: Heldenkampf in Schnee und Eis * 1918: Der Mandarin (61 min; direction by

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, Fritz Freisler) * 1922: Sodom und Gomorrha (direction by

) * 1922: Harun al Rashid (direction by Michael Curtiz) * 1923: Der junge Medardus (direction by Michael Curtiz) * 1924: Die Sklavenkönigin (70 min; direction by Michael Curtiz) * 1925:

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(direction by

) * 1927: Café Elektric (direction by

) * 1927: Die Pratermizzi * 1929: '' Bright Eyes'' ( co-production with

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) * 1930: Geld auf der Straße (direction by

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) * 1934:

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(direction by

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) * 1934: Hohe Schule (direction by

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)

References

* Herbert Polak, 1948. ''30 Jahre Sascha-Film: Festschrift der Sascha-Film Verein- und Vertriebs- Ges. m.b.H. Wien''. Vienna.

External links

*
Vienna Cinema and Theatre Topography Project
*
History of Vienna website
*

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History

Selected films

See also

References

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