Berolina Film
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Berolina Film (often shortened to Berolina) was a film production company that operated in West Germany between 1948 and 1964. The company's productions were supervised by the experienced Kurt Ulrich and were based in West Berlin.Davidson & Hake p.195 The company helped launch a cycle of popular heimatfilm made in the 1950s.Hake p.90
The company's name is a reference to Berolina, the allegorical female figure representing the city of Berlin. It was also the name of a short-lived company from the 1920s, notable for producing the 1924 film The Hands of Orlac.
Selected films
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- Everything Will Be Better in the Morning (1948)
- The Black Forest Girl (1950)
- The Heath Is Green (1951)
- The Land of Smiles (1952)
- When the Heath Dreams at Night (1952)
- I Can't Marry Them All (1952)
- Mailman Mueller (1953)
- The Gypsy Baron (1954)
- Love is Forever (1954)
- Emil and the Detectives (1954)
- My Leopold (1955)
- The Happy Wanderer (1955)
- The Three from the Filling Station (1955)
- Spy for Germany (1956)
- Black Forest Melody (1956)
- Spring in Berlin (1957)
- Iron Gustav (1958)
- The Gypsy Baron (1962)
- I Learned It from Father (1964)
- Legend of a Gunfighter (1964)
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References
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Bibliography
- Davidson, John & Hake, Sabine. Framing the Fifties: Cinema in a Divided Germany. Berghahn Books, 2008.
- Hake, Sabine. German National Cinema. Routledge, 2002.
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Category:Film production companies of Germany
Category:Mass media companies established in 1948
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