Sascha-Film, in full Sascha-Filmindustrie AG and from 1933 Tobis-Sascha-Filmindustrie AG, was the largest Austrian film production company of the silent film and early sound film 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

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, and relocated in 1912 to Vienna. On 10 September 1918, after the merger with the

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s Philipp & Pressburger, the business became the ''Sascha-Filmindustrie AG''. With

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s such as Alexander Korda's ''

Prinz und Bettelknabe ''The Prince and the Pauper'' (German: ''Prinz und Bettelknabe'') is a 1920 Austrian silent adventure film directed by Alexander Korda and starring Tibor Lubinszky, Albert Schreiber, and Adolf Weisse. It is based on Mark Twain's 1881 novel '' ...

'' ("Prince and Beggar") (1920) and Michael Curtiz's ''

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'' (1922) as well as ''

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'' ("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 Anschluss, by which Austria was annexed to the Third Reich, the concern passed into the ownership of the National Socialist government and was re-founded as Wien-Film GmbH. Its best-known director of the period to the end of the war was Gustav Ucicky. After the end of the war 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 Hubert Marischka) * 1915: Das andere Ich (direction by Fritz Freisler) * 1916: Wien im Krieg (direction by

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* 1917:

Heldenkampf in Schnee und Eis ''Heldenkampf in Schnee und Eis'' (''Heroes' Fight in Snow and Ice'') is a 1917 Austro-Hungarian propaganda newsreel film made by Sascha-Film for the Imperial and Royal War Press Headquarters. The film is hand-coloured and presented in two secti ...

* 1918:

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(61 min; direction by Paul Frank, Fritz Freisler) * 1922:

(direction by Michael Curtiz) * 1922: Harun al Rashid (direction by Michael Curtiz) * 1923:

Der junge Medardus ''Young Medardus'' (German: ''Der junge Medardus'') is a 1923 Austrian silent historical drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Victor Varconi, Egon von Jordan and Agnes Esterhazy.Von Dassanowsky p.21 Based on a play with the same ...

(direction by Michael Curtiz) * 1924:

(70 min; direction by Michael Curtiz) * 1925: Das Spielzeug von Paris (direction by Michael Curtiz) * 1927: Café Elektric (direction by Gustav Ucicky) * 1927:

Die Pratermizzi Die Pratermizzi (literally, "Mizzi of the Prater") is an Austrian silent drama film directed by Gustav Ucicky in 1926, released in January 1927, and starring Anny Ondra, Igo Sym and Nita Naldi. The film was long believed lost until its rediscov ...

* 1929: '' Bright Eyes'' ( co-production with British International Pictures) * 1930: Geld auf der Straße (direction by Georg Jacoby) * 1934: Maskerade (direction by Willi Forst) * 1934: Hohe Schule (direction by Erich Engel)

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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