"The year is 1917" "The German military was about to lose the war" "A new weapon was sought" "It was to strike fear in the enemy's heart" "And to enthral the Germans:" "The idea was to make propaganda films" "1917" "The German Reichsbank comes up with an idea for a film" "It is supposed to advertise war bonds" "The advertising concept: to show stacks of money" "Ernst Lubitsch" "A lovesick fool has fallen into apathy" "The jingling of a purse is what revives his spirits" "4th of July 1917" "General Ludendorff is writing a letter to the war ministry" "The Deutsche Bank founds a consortium rich with capital" "Ludendorff demands capital for founding a film production company" "CEO von Stauß manages to attract 25 million Reichsmark" "It was believed that what was needed" "Was a central agency for the production of propaganda" "And for this new efforts were needed" "At that time numerous small and medium size production companies existed" "Which had profited significantly during the war" "Kreimeyer calls the UFO a "magical empire of images"" "He investigates its development" "Founded in secret, almost a conspiracy" "It does not operate according to plan," "The war was good business for the film industry" "Particularly because" "The German film industry was protected from international productions" "Permission for production and screening was given only to German films" "That is to say that the smaller companies" "Were booming during that time" "Now the aim was to amalgamate the most powerful production companies" "Into a single giant film factory" "A concern of larger scope and higher financial means" "In order to produce what" "Ludendorff and others imagined to be more effective propaganda 25 million Marks" "The UFA is founded on December 18, 1917" "UFA begins partnerships with production companies" "Highly experienced producers and economic managers were involved" "People whose business it was to generate profit from film" "They were delighted about the founding of UFA because" "They now had more capital at their disposal" "These business concerns" "Contrary to Ludendorff's plans" "Could not all that easily be instrumentalised" "For the renewal of the enthusiasm for the war" "On the contrary, what became evident was" "The contradiction between the political ideas of the military high command," "That is, their idea of what film should do," "And the profit motives, including those of the Deutsche Bank" "The Deutsche Bank was primarily interested in profit" "Ultimately, the original plan was never realised" "UFA does not produce a single propaganda film" "The films it makes" "Take place in far away countries and in different eras" "Sumurun, 1919" "By Ernst Lubitsch" "With Pola Negri" "Pola Negri was one of the first of the big stars of UFA" "A confident, rebellious, seductive woman" "In Madame DuBarry from 1919" "She plays the French King's mistress" "The revolutionary masses call for her head" "She is dragged to the guillotine" "In her autobiography Negri describes" "When the film Carmen was screened:" "It was a radiant celebration" "Sounds from outside entered the cinema" "Shots, rifle reports, the revolution" "Inside the cinema everyone acted as if outside nothing was happening at all" "UFA was the product of losing WW1" "And of the failure of the revolution" "In the films reality is but a distant reflex" "It is within earshot, to be noticed from a distance" "I was a young swan, gliding through the emerald darkness of a square" "Whose horizon I could not quite fathom" "That is the beginning of Pola Negri's autiobiography:" "A dream" "Another major film production" "A year later, Anna Boleyn" "During the making of this film" "An important guest was received: the head of state" "In the meantime a social-democrat government had come to power" "Its leader was the president Friedrich Ebert" "Next to him the main actors:" "Henny Porten and Emil Jannings" "Ebert and his ministers and secretaries of state" "Who are not seen on this image" "They were present when the scene was being filmed" "That we see on this image:" "The coronation procession at Westminster Abbey" "At that time the extras mainly consisted of unemployed people" "They were fitted into English renaissance costume" "And now, in the presence of Lubitsch and Ebert" "They were supposed to act like the masses" "It started fine" "Ebert and his staff were standing on the famous commanders hill" "From here Lubitsch directed his army of extras" "Suddenly the mood changed" "When these extras, that is to say 4,000 unemployed," "Marched past Ebert" "Suddenly these people recognised" "That person and institution" "Who had put them to hardship" "The social-democrat traitors, as they were called back then already" "Who had betrayed the proletariat" "And the object of the film suddenly broke free" "From this ficticious set up" "The workers called "Down with Ebert"" "Indeed, on this day they were starving" "One reason was that UFA had not yet paid their fee" "That certainly wasn't the only reason" "For this sudden eruption of the people's anger" "After all, it was a politically volatile period" "A large part of the people was agitated and revolutionary" "In the aftermath of the November revolution" "After the suppression of the November revolution" "There was significant disenchantment with the social-democrat leadership" "And here an opportunity for payback presented itself" "Der Stier von Oliveira (1920) The Bull of Oliveira" "Erich Schönfelder directs" "The film is set in Spain during the occupation of Napoleon's army" "A French general subjects a woman to his demands" "Her father and brother are freedom fighters" "The general threatens to have them shot" "She submits to his desires" "A little later" "The opportunity to take her revenge and to liberate the country" "She takes the weapon" "UFA was created by the acquisition of production companies" "And it continued to acquire" "That was its policy" "Its board of directors was composed of" "Bankers, industrialists and business managers" "They attempted to gain control of the film industry" "In Germany, Europe, and beyond" "UFA devoured companies whole, or parasitically merged with them" "It merged, liquidated, speculated" "And it founded mysteriously inert companies" "That did not produce anything" "UFA acquired cinemas, real estate" "Shares, studios, stakes" "It acquired concepts, material, writers, actors and directors" "What couldn't be acquired was copied" "Ernst Lubitsch was the only thing it lost" "Its most renowned director went to the USA" "In 1922 UFA swallowed Decla-Bioscop" "With it came the producer Erich Pommer" "He became the director of production" "Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau came" "Fritz Lang came and with him his Nibelungen films" "And his wife, the script writer Thea von Harbou" "At last, Joe May was contracted" "He produced his own work" "But commissioned by UFA" "In 1921 May shot the film The Indian Tomb" "Script by Lang and Harbou" "May had purchased 25 acres near Berlin" "Woods, hillsides, lakes, shores" "Here the sets for his films were built" "A gigantic palace, the actors are on a search" "What they are searching for is not that relevant" "Primarily, this is an occasion to" "Display the splendour of the sets" "Joe May's world is an exotic, strange labyrinth" "The spectators are plunged into it in order to entrap them in it" "And perhaps to liberate themselves again" "Dedicated to the German people" "Ein Walzertraum (1925) A Waltz-Dream" "By Ludwig Berger" "A man does not love his wife" "She has her hair cut short, and puts on a short skirt" "Thus she wins back her husband" "The film accomplishes the feat to celebrate love" "By making it cheap" "Der letzte Mann by Murnau (1924) aka The last laugh" "A film full of smoothly sliding images" "It's about the social decline of an old man" "The film might end" "As he reaches rock bottom" "But he inherits an American millionaire's fortune" "And is back on top of the world" "Vain and sentimental" "And tailor-made for the actor Jannings" "That was Lotte Eisner's opinion after she first saw the film" "Later on, however, she thought the film a miracle" "And she considered Murnau as the greatest German director" "The script of Fritz Lang's Metropolis" "She disdainfully called a "mere kitchen recipe"" "Metropolis is a film about the geography of the human" "A ficticious world, an artificial place" "The question is how well humans become adapted to it" "A hyper-American utopian automated city" "And inside it philistine spirits in violet-blue" "So wrote the critic Willy Haas" "It is also a film about the composition of human nature" "How much can the human become deformed" "Which regimes can he be subjected to?" "And to what extent is he his own flawed creation?" "A useless machine" "And dysfunctional, too" "Questions that UFA might ask about itself" "This wildly operating factory of humans" "That animates Metropolis" "Is an image that the film industry is making of itself" "At the film premiere Bernard Brentano remarked" "Metropolis is a village gone berserk" "You return to Berlin from Metropolis" "You're just glad to be home" "First you are startled by the" "Incredible sensation of a taxi cab rushing past" "The film was the most ambitious and expensive project" "That UFA had undertaken up to this point" "The enormous costs became part of the film's advertisement hype" "The film flopped" "Its failure is already part of its script" "Bunuel thought of Metropolis as two films" "Glued to each other by their stomach" "One film, pompous and pedantic" "Tells a disappointing story" "The other film amazes like the most wondrous picture book" "Perhaps Metropolis  is not one or two films" "Perhaps it is all the UFA films taken together" "It is penetrated by" "A schematic totalitarianism of production" "That cannot leave anything untouched" "That seizes everything but cannot reach completion" "But if everything has been moved" "And nothing has remained in its place" "The question arises" "Where is it that things have their real place?" "Around the same time UFA produces a counterpart to Metropolis" "Die Brüder Schellenberg by Karl Grune aka The Brothers Schellenberg" "It's about a major social and economic catastrophe" "A factory is destroyed" "A pair of brothers reacts differently to this event" "One of them becomes a black-marketeer and stock market manipulator" "The other becomes a social reformer" "They go separate ways" "The financier becomes rich" "But his spoilt wife despises him" "Alraune (1927) by Henrik Galeen aka A Daughter of Destiny" "Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney (1927) by G.W. Pabst" "Heimkehr (1928) and Asphalt (1929), two films by Joe May" "A policeman is powerless" "He wants to arrest a slick jewellery thief" "But she eludes him" "She simply goes to bed" "She eludes the police officer" "But not the man" "She seduces him using every trick in the book" "And he falls for her" "In many UFA films there are these frightful women" "Amoral creatures" "Demonic temptresses" "And the ordinary men caught in their clutches" "Are at their mercy and irretrievably lost" "Asphalt is the story of an amour fou" "Between criminality and the power of the law" "Morality as a costume is an ill-fitting gown for the citizen" "He is restless" "The women embody desire and temptation" "And a desire that hasn't been done justice" "A residue of anarchy" "With a menacing echo" "If you push the acted part to its extreme" "It becomes its own reality" "And at the end of the kiss" "The seductress has actually fallen in love with the policeman" "She goes to jail for him" "Her body is her real face" "And is so expressive that" "It's best, and not with distaste, to watch her body to understand her" "Arnheim wrote this in 1928 about Brigitte Helm" "About her part in Alraune" "She is a corrupted woman" "She is seduced" "But the seducers become the victims" "On her path to rock bottom she works at the circus" "Her father tracks her down" "And brings her home with him" "She is afraid of him" "She comes to hate him" "There is a secret" "When she discovers it she is destroyed" "Her hatred is overwhelming" "He must suffer brutally" "She seduces him" "She enslaves him" "She destroys his soul" "Alraune read in his secret notes" "That she is an artificial creature" "The man whom she thought her father" "Is a scientist" "Once he had a prostitute come to his home" "He inseminated her with the semen of a criminal" "Nowadays only the masterworks of the UFA remain well-known" "But its repertoire was much more extensive" "UFA produced all cinematic genres" "Military comedies" "Crime" "Cheap farces, weepies, and operettas" "A film for every day" "Films for the suburbs" "Films that don't need critics" "Films in which cinema became itself by itself" "The films are forgotten, extant copies long since decayed" "Since Metropolis UFA was in a crisis" "Its films didn't make sufficient profit" "Costs were escalating" "There was a lack of capital" "In order to attract capital" "A contract with Paramount and Metro was signed" "That credit line was soon exhausted" "American films began" "To displace German films in the cinemas" "At that stage, in 1927," "Hugenberg entered into business with UFA" "His backers were in print media and in heavy industries" "His interests lay in power and money" "A German nationalist business man" "His man in the UFA directorate was CEO Klitzsch" "It took a few years, and the advent of sound film" "Until the political directives of the new head of firm" "Were implemented" "Yet, the new funding" "That Hugenberg brought with him" "Instantly manifested itself in a new" "Opulence of the films" "Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney by G.W. Pabst" ""Nobody can film a safe like he"" "A critic wrote" "Pabst was considered the master of continuity editing" "The different shots flow seamlessly" "Cuts are not noticeable" "The film was an adaptation of" "Ilja Ehrenburg's pulp novel" "A bourgeois French girl" "And a young Russian revolutionary" "Who has ended up in Paris" "Political turmoil, betrayal, and greed" "Had separated the two" "This scene reunites them" "Klitzsch bought out the American UFA contract" "He turned UFA upside down" "Striking workers were fired" "Changes were made in leading positions" "Many were made redundant" "The new direction wasn't yet visible in the films" "He brought back Pommer" "And with him Emil Jannings returned from America" "Jannings was the titan of German actors" "From start" "To finish" "Reich minister Goebbels receives state actor Emil Jannings" "To convey to him his high appreciation" "Of the new film Ohm Krüger" "On this occasion the minister" "Presented Emil Jannings" " the first German actor to receive it " "With the newly endowed Ring of Honour of German film" "In future it will be bestowed for" "High merits earned in German film" "Pommer wanted to produce a hit with Jannings" "UFA checked its accounts and discovered" "That with the exception of one film" "All of Janning's films had lost money" "Internal resistance to the project built up" "Klitzsch swept it aside" "UFA expected a fee of up to 75,000" "But Jannings was satisfied with 50,000" "In the USA sound film was now being made" "But his English was not good" "Neither could he sing very well" "One obstacle remained before his return" "An enormous tax bill" "With the assistance of the ministry of finance UFA got rid of the bill" "Material for a new Jannings project was now being sought" "Das Flötenkonzert von Sans-souci  by Gustav Ucicky" "One of the national blockbusters" "Made annually by UFA" "It was shown in two versions: as sound film" "And as silent film with intertitles" "Where did he receive the scar?" "At Hohenfriedberg, your majesty" ""A king for a gazebo"" "Was Kracauer's judgment of this Frederick" "It's better at home" "What?" "A silly film" "But in 1930 it literally caused riots in cinemas" "Toward the end UFA stages a gigantic parade of the troops" "Supposedly it threw many spectators into fits of rapture" "However much more beautiful it may be at home" "We have to go back out there, we have to defend ourselves" "Or soon there won't be any home left" "Ein blonder Traum (1932)" "Direction:" "Paul Martin" "Lilian Harvey plays an unemployed dancer" "Her only wish is to get to Hollywood" "But two window cleaners are in love with her" "Willi Fritsch and Willi Forst" "And not just they, all the window cleaners in town are" "They want to prevent her leaving" "That's just thrashing about" "You used to be the first to applaud" "Circus fare" "It only looks easy" "It's quite difficult you know" "Not every girl can do it" "Bicycles become the vehicle of a gigantic show of solidarity" "Solidarity, yes" "If it is concerned with matters of the heart" "Die Gräfin von Monte Christo (1932)" "By Karl Hartl" "I need three solid guys for tomorrow" "Safe crackers" "As you wish" "Three safe crackers" "The film begins in the world of film" "Then everthing is turned upside down" "The waiting hall for the extras seems" "Like a sinister dive" "And the men hoping for work" "Seem like crooks" "You sit yourself down next to your mistress" "Excuse me, director" "But a lady-in-waiting would never sit down beside her mistress" "Oh?" "Well, just do what I told you to" "Your mistress is...democratically minded" "The countess of Monte Christo is also nothing more than a small extra" "She is dressed in cheap furs" "Given a car" "And a lady-in-waiting who has her own ideas about acting" "Once the camera is rolling" "She decides to transform her small part into a big one" "She drives past the camera," "Out of the film studio and into real life" "Where she wants to succeed as a swindler" "Economic crisis, unemployment" "People have no money" "UFA takes a step toward ordinary people" "The duet from Die Drei von der Tankstelle" "By Wilhelm Thiele (1930)" "Thousands are in the streeet" "They have nothing else to do" "They want to catch a glimpse of Lien Deyers" "A minor UFA star" "Currently visiting Dresden" "But Lien Deyers has disappeared in the crowd" "The only place to see her is at the cinema" "UFA promises that at the cinema" "Happiness awaits even in people's daily affairs" "And every close-up is a forgetting of the world" "1930" "Audience numbers dwindle 1931" "Ticket prices collapse 1932" "Revenue declines 1933" "UFA takes another step toward ordinary people" "Flüchtlinge" "Director:" "Gustav Ucicky" "Made in 1932" "In cinemas in 1933" "A certain movement enters German film" "From right to left, from left to right" "Back and forth, and into lunacy" ""From Caligari to Hitler"" "That's how Kracauer described its direction" "He perceived the stream of the collective unconscious" "Flüchtlinge is about a group of Russian Germans" "A persecuted minority who want to return to Germany" "Ill-disciplined, derelict" "And without direction they wander around a Chinese border town" "Enter Hans Albers" "He is the man of action in Flüchtlinge" "The saviour and hero" "Hans Albers was a special actor" "He acted without artifice" "His mere appearance suffices" "A daredevil, part crook, part gentleman" "An adventurer and breaker of hearts" "When he takes a woman into his arms" "We believe it" "A rare event in German film" "Gentlemen, what is our course?" "Across these rivers" "Shanghai" " Hamburg" "Hamburg" "Germany" "Home" "Passport" "1933" "It must have been March or early April" "Goebbels offered me the leadership of German film" "That same evening" "I left for Paris" "I did not want to return to Germany" "Du sollst nicht begehren (1933)" "AKA Thou shalt not covet" "The first Nazi film produced by UFA" "Important guests arrived during the making" "This is the famous photo" "With Leni Riefenstahl and Goebbels" "And was work stopped at that moment?" "No, they wanted to see how we were proceeding" "And did they just" "Turn up on set?" " Goebbels and Riefenstahl?" " Yes they did" "It was unexpected" "We among the crew didn't know they would visit" "Peters was assistant director of photography" "These are production stills" "Back then the Debrie Parvo T.  camera was UFA standard" "Peters has kept production stills" "They preserve a memory of the making of the film" "But don't reveal the intricacy of its production" "Here we shot at night" "In order to emphasize the fire" "Do you remember the plot of the film?" "As usual it's about love" "There's a pair of rivals" "Paul Klinger" "And a fellow called Griep" "They both vie for a woman" "The film consists of their conflict" "The conflict of two brothers" "One a peasant, the other a soldier" "Standing between them a reckless young woman" "It is a dull, brooding film" "Ambitious and full of ideas" "That are not fully realised" "Time trickles unbearably" "Until the climax: the fratricide" "The title of the script was:" "Cain" "Its author Schneider-Edenkoben had" "Submitted it to UFA during the autumn of 1932" "The script was praised for its commitment to the ideology of blood and soil" "But the project was rejected for being too literary" "14 days after appointment as Chancellor" "February 16 1933" "Schneider-Edenkoben came to see the managing director" "He made it known that he was an party member" "And emphasised that he had high ranking connections" "He then proceeded to lay out" "The Nazi's plans for UFA." "The state would appropriate the firm" "Thus UFA began to appreciate his script a little more" "Schneider-Edenkoben was rewarded with this first directorial job" "At first it was planned that" "The film would cost 60,000 Reichsmarks" "In the end it cost 180,000" "You're a boring lot" "Can't you think of anything at all?" "Your legs are beautiful" "The first Nazi film" "It was a fiasco" "Darré, the National Farmers' Leader" "Saw in the film a denigration of his peasants" "And called for a boycott of the film" "UFA felt affronted, drafted a letter" "The film had been supposed to be a favour to Nationalsocialists" "And now complaints were the reward" "Yet, a certain gleeful tone" "That this nazi experiment had failed" "Is evident" "Verräter (1936) by Karl Ritter" "With Lida Baarova and Willy Birgel," "Theodor Loos and Irene von Meyendorff" "It is about the people's reaction to the military buildup of the German army" " A lady such as yourself" " Oh please..." "Believe me, only travelling makes life worth living" "Won't you have a drink with me?" "Look at that gorgeous fur" "Why tell me all this?" "Are you trying to seduce me?" " Certainly not" "The film divides society into" "High society and ordinary folks" "It praises modest requirements" "And it savours luxurious living" "UFA will struggle to its very end with this double standard" "On the one hand the appeal of luxury" "On the other hand cleanliness and the sense of duty" "Cinema is torn between the two" "And cannot decide which to choose" "Oh listen, a waltz" "Look at that gorgeous fur" "Will we ever be able to afford one like that?" "50 pence please" "Who needs fur, as long as we're healthy" "Unseen, two secret services are pulling the strings" "They are competing" "The English secret service corrupts people" "The German secret service brings them back to reason" "It uncovers all secrets and rights all wrongs" "Karl Ritter" "Airforce trailblazer, Hitler's follower since 1923" "Director, author, producer, academic and airforce officer" "Unternehmen Michael" "A film by Ritter from 1937" "They are vanquished" "Our assault battalion has already captured the third trench" "Many of the English were captured, others are fleeing" "They kept their word" "What a victory!" "Victory" "Purchased at a high price" "With grave sacrifice" "Tell me" "But you know it as well as I do" "Future generations will not judge us by the greatness of our victories" "But by the magnitude of our sacrifice" "Ritter is among the most accomplished Nazi directors" "His story books reveal his enthusiasm" "His themes were" "War, officers, soldiers and coarse humour" "He had fully conceptualised his films" "Before he made htem" "He knew precisely what he wanted to express" "All I did was follow my orders" "Pour le mérite (1938)" "You may resort to whatever punishment you like" "Nothing about this state" "Concerns me whatsoever" "I detest democracy like the plague" "Whatever you may do" "I will harm it" "And disturb it by all available means" "We need to re-erect a Germany" "According the ideals of a front-line soldier" "In 1933 the film credit bank is founded" "Soon it provided 50% of all production costs" "Audience numbers rose" "But the actors' fees rose more rapidly" "German films were boycotted abroad" "Export of film collapses" "The number of new films fell" "The Nazis saw an opportunity" "In part secretly, in part overtly" "They buy up production company shares" "And initialise the process of nationalising the film industry" "Goebbels is dissatisfied with UFA's policies" "In 1937 he installs" "A committee in charge of production" "Among others its members were" "State actor Paul Hartmann" "State actor Mathias Wiemann" "Artistic director Eugen Klöpfer" "The director and professor" "Karl Fröhlich and Karl Ritter" "These men are sincere about their new role" "They inundate themselves with scripts, roles and directorial responsibilities" "But the UFA crisis does not cease" "Starke Herzen" "Director:" "Herbert Maisch" "From 1937" "The story is set in" "Hungary 1918/19 during the council republic" "The setting: an opera house" "That night:" "Tosca" "Goebbels had demanded increased production" "Of anti-Bolshewist films" "Consequently, in this film communist revolutionaries" "Occupy the opera house" "And torment the audience and artists" "Once again the conflict of two brothers" "All you've ever done" "Is besmirch our family's reputation" "You're a fitting comrade for the rabble" "That has taken charge" "Your anger isn't going to help you" "We are in power" "For how long?" "We will not rest before these criminals are exterminated" "Comrades, how long must I listen to this?" "Ideas" "Class struggle" "Sedition" "Destruction of culture" "If you can't see the lunacy in this..." "I'm not interested in a discussion of ideology" "Let's hear it already" "Madame Martha" "All I need is a lock of hair" "And the garter belt" "Of your burning desire" "In the end opera staff and audience join forces" "And disarm the revolutionaries" "The final scene" "It is clearly supposed to evoke the famous stair case" "From Eistenstein's Battleship Potemkin" "Revolution is driven out of the opera" "And massacred" "Goebbels had the film censored" "We can only speculate about his reasons" "Up until this point the Nazis had wanted" "A German kind of Soviet revolutionary cinema" "Goebbels now gave up on such an idea" "In any case, he preferred Hollywood film" "Perhaps the censorship of  Starke Herzen marks the date" "When Goebbels wanted to separate entertainment and propaganda" "From this time on, an entertainment film" "Will not reveal its political orientation" "It took some time until Goebbels understood that" "That all that was required was to give the people" "What they wanted to see in the first place" "One simply had to reinforce notions that the audience entertained already" "Mass appeal was required" "The result was a German style" "The style of the Everyman" "Of the average person" "The star is the sociological antithesis of the audience" "Brangel is burnt" "The future's name is Elene" "Do you know Elene?" "No?" "That's typical" "I don't mean to offend" "In a dozen films that were valuable in reinforcing state politics" "I illustrated a few key topics:" "the German military" "The State Labour Service, and the Four-Year-Plan" "The films all showed" "How Nationalsocialist plans were implemented" "In a very short amount of time, and in a wide variety of spheres of life" "The films are evidence of the enormous efforts of development" "Dr. Martin Rikli" "A scientist" "Who made countless minor features for UFA's" "Department of Documentary Film" "The supporting film before the main feature was to instruct the audience" "By means of microscopes, telescopes" "Infrared images and special effects" "The combination of science and film" "Makes comprehensible the true functioning of reality" "Subjective experience is subjugated" "To the information provided by film" "Invisible clouds" "As you can see they are pecking" "This pecking is also an instinct" "Transmitted genetically since prehistoric times" "Such a chick pecks at everything it finds" "Irrelevant information with a purpose" "A valuable radioactive sample has been lost in a laboratory" "Radium" "Not to worry" "The radium itself will" "Alert us to its presence via the counter" "Slow motion cinematography yields" "Particularly valuable evidence concerning structural properties" "Earthquakes and volcanoes" "The formation of language is studied by means of" "X-ray sound film" "X-rays" "Please pay attention to larynx and tongue" "We are speaking slowly" "Con stan ti no ple" "January February March" "April March and so forth" "Problems of wind" "We encounter him everywhere" "This restless fellow called: wind" "And everywhere he evinces" "His enormous strength" "Acropolis - beauty" "Female beauty and the South Pacific" "Documentary footage inside of which is hidden a dramatic feature" "Kautschuk (1938)" "Directed by Eduard von Borsody" "I've heard that the film is based on" "What was more or less a documentary" " That the brothers Eichhorn..." " Yes, I know" "Had filmed in South America" "UFA decided to turn it into" "A feature film" "Documentary footage, with piranhas, etc." "Was used for this feature" "Here in Travemünde we" "Filmed the exterior shots" "At the time" "The navy training vessel" "Horst Wessel" "Was moored here" "Then a small barge approaches It was a complex undertaking in the Bay of Lübeck" "We continued to shoot" "Partly the sets were in Babelsberg" "A canoo" "A small stream" "Had been built in the studio" "Other exterior shots were filmed in Bavaria" "Germany's most powerful wild water river" "The river Ammer" "And in this film it was" "Flowing through South America" "Yes, hence the artificial vines" "In the studio" "Or by the river" "Was it possible to reproduce" "The Amazon jungle accurately?" "Do you think the film works on that level?" "I don't think anybody noticed that" "It was all just artificial sets" "It all corresponded with" "The footage by the Eichhorn brothers" "A fine spot we've chosen here" "We have to get through here" "Every cut marks where fiction ends" "And where the documentary begins" ""To my astonishment I notice that"" ""That in your program the name Lilian Harvey..."" ""Recent films of Miss Harvey have made significant losses"" ""It appears that this artist is no longer popular with German audiences"" "The plot is lacking in substance" "That a young person should discover their father" "As a spy for foreign powers is not a fortunate choice" "That the snow would affect the crease is understandable" "At least you were able to have your suit ironed at the hotel" "I now want to learn politics" "What wild tales are you reading there?" "Tran and Helle" "Short films that supplemented the Wochenschau newsreels from 1939 to 1940" "It was a kind of suggorate comedy" "Here, Churchill for instance, a fine fellow" "Do you know what he does on his own time?" "He earns profit from the war, right?" "Profits from the war?" "No" "He gives away all his money again Is a half-breed." "Quarter Jew." "Gestapo." "Secret." "KPD" "Do not reject." "Dame von Bothner's costume designs are" "Merely copied from Vogue and Harper's Bazar" "I regret to inform you that your script was rejected." "As you know" "We aim to prevent interracial marriage" "In your book, however, Attila marries the Roman woman" "For this reason alone..." "In both shots Luise Ulrich and a lover sit in a sleigh" "The sleigh is moving" "But no change in the landscape can be seen" "The lay-person's view is that such shots should be directed differently..." "Recommend my 20-year-old daughter" "She is an accomplished rider, driver, photographer" "I am a personal friend of the professor" "The file U8" "Correspondence 1939-1942" "Index letter:" "Sch-St" "Letters to UFA" "Letters from UFA" "Great clutter" "So if I get educated, that's wrong, too?" "One mustn't imagine that" "This sort of material can lead to an education" "If you really wish to know about our enemies" "Then you should read" "The Whitebook" "It contains state-certified documents" "From Poland" "They will prove to you what crooks are your philanthropist Churchill and your angler Chamberlain" "The security force was at the cinema and took notes" "On the audience's reaction" "See?" "Now you begin to understand..." "Here some of our most popular actors and directors" "Paul Hartmann and Willy Birgel" "Heinrich George and director Schweikart" "Mathias Wiemann" "Heinz Rühmann and his wife Hertha Feiler" "Will Dohm" "Leni Riefenstahl" "The undersecretary" "Professor Karl Ritter" "Ferdinand Marian, Hans Moser" "New talent" "Was Zarah Leander really" "Groomed to be a star?" "Hollywood style?" "On the one hand, she was made scarce" "Kept out of audiences' reach" "She was only seen at film premières" "There she would take a bow, or sing a song" "Then she disappeared again" "Into her mansion in Dahlem" "Or she was in her native country Sweden" "It was said of her" "And she fully agreed with this" ""I have never played different parts"" ""All I've ever done is change my costume"" "And that's it." "After the war, too" "What she played was the high society woman" "Who due to miscellaneous adverse circumstances" "Had to perform at nightclubs" "In order to support her son or daughter" "Paul Seiler" "Author from Berlin, collector, and admirer of Zarah Leander" "She was permitted to wear make-up and to smoke in her films" "Showed rather a lot of cleavage" "Was promiscuous" "In the film Die grosse Liebe that is evident" "At the stage entrance an admirer" "Waits for her." "He is so insistent" "That they sleep together that night" "But only later in the film does it become apparent that" "He's an air force officer" "And because of this" "Some authorities intervened" "Because they argued that an air force officer" "Wouldn't sleep with someone on their first night" "But then Göring argued that" "A real pilot wouldn't miss such an opportunity" "Zarah's function was that of a pressure outlet" "She reconciled people with their current era" "She gave comfort" "And if anything that would be an accusation" "We might level at her and at her career" "Would you like most if all foreigners disappeared from your country?" "As guests they are always welcome" "But otherwise...we have not benefitted from you" "And the military is to your disliking, too?" "A necessary evil" "Das Lied der Wüste (1939)" "Directed by Paul Martin" "I used to call her Clear Cylinder" "Due to her boozing" "She had some bad features" "I decided to light her from the front" "I fixed some black gauze to the spotlight" "And toned this part down" "Not dark" "Just more tender" "Than the light" "Director of Photography:" "Richard Angst" "Of course, that's a matter of personal preference" "Heimat (1937)" "Directed by Carl Froelich" "Didn't I always tell you I was lucky?" "It's been 3 years, I think these 3 weeks are meant to be for us 3 years, one week for every year" " 3 weeks?" " That's a long time" "Shouldn't we two try to get married again?" "3 weeks and then?" "Die große Liebe (1942)" "Directed by Rolf Hansen" "A Third Reich of Dreams existed" "In it, a 33-year-old woman dreamt this:" "I'm at the cinema" "Quite vast, quite dark" "I'm afraid" "I'm not allowed to be here" "Only party members are allowed at the cinema" "Hitler comes" "I'm even more afraid" "But" "Not only does he permit me to stay" "He sits down beside me" "And puts his arm around my shoulder" "C. Beradt, The Third Reich of Dreams" "Another outdoor location" "This time I'm using the hand-held camera" "During the campaigns in Poland and France" "I had still shot on 35mm, but later" "It became to complicated and then" "I switched to 16mm" "Which made things easier" "There are partisan fighters" "They're shooting from the house and here come the troops" "That's me taking cover" "Because the air was filled with lead" "You're holding the Ari in your hand, right?" "The German soldiers" "Have taken cover" "Here are the other troops" "Fighting the partisans who are shooting from the house" "The war promotes the assistant DOP to DOP" "He was sent to the frontline" "He became a war reporter" "I'm out in the open again" "There's the troops" "And from here shots are fired" "Everybody else is in the trench" "Only the camerman is exposed." "As usual." "How did you know" "What was wanted?" "What was supposed to be reported?" "What motifs to choose?" "That was up to me" "I was an independent unit" "That was up to me" "Up here, the first shot" "You can't tell from this" "This is the battlefield of the first tank battle" "Between French tanks and ours" "That is the Askania Z camera with high focal length" "To zoom in as much as possible" "To get the object as close as possible" "He directed his camera at the enemy" "What the camera recorded were images" "But shots were being fired out of these images" "Here" "I'm the only one without cover, Ari in hand 60 metres of film, battery" "All the other gear is" "In the tank and safe, I'm the only one without cover" "I'm a target" "And you shot whatever you liked?" "Yes" "And then you sent it off and it was used for..." "For the Wochenschau newsreel, too" "But there was nobody" "Journalists or directors or anyone" "Who said: "We want this or that"?" "The war footage arrived in Berlin" "They were turned, adjusted and made to fit" "Before every feature film 30min of newsreels from the war" "That was solid preparation for the feature film" "1min of newsreel footage for every 3min of film 1 minute of war" "3 minutes of damage control" "If a mother thinks like this" "Death suddenly becomes weightless" "Yes" "We no longer think" "That they fell" "Only what they fell for" "And we remember them in their youth" "Let me join your ranks" "That I may not die a common death some distant day" "A futile death I do not love" "Yet I love to die at the sacrificial mound" "For the fatherland" "To bleed my heart's loving blood" "For the fatherland" "And herolds of victory descend" ""The battle is ours"" "So live now, oh fatherland" "And do not count the dead" "Here, beloved," "Not one can be found..." "Are you there?" "The whole gang is here" "Stukas (1941)" "By Karl Ritter" "All present" "All present" "The entire noble Stuka squadron advancing on Liège" "Descending Order" "Here we go" "Kora Terry (1940)" "Directed by Georg Jacoby" "A woman is crying about her life" "She is forced to play the part of her wicked twin sister" "Die Rothschilds (1940)" "Directed by Erich Waschneck" "The Jewish banker is counting money" "The local prince has sold some of his subjects" "Avarice is projected onto the Jews" "1942" "The banker Emil Georg von Stauß celebrates his 65th birthday" "UFA recorded the occasion" "The banker is a founder of UFA" "My dear UFA comrades" "I am deeply obliged that" "You show me the courtesy to" "Celebrate with me in person" "Now that my my 50th birthday has come around yet again" "Von Stauß was Hitler's banker" "Managers, politicians and state officials" "The social elite makes an appearance and delivers its presents" "The UFA management's present was not completed in time" "Von Stauß has to be content with the drawn story boards" "Germanin (1943)" "Directed by Max Kimmich" "Of the 300,000 natives, 200,000 suffer from the sleeoing disease" "The film portrays Africa in a manner" "In which it is still portrayed today" "A diseased continent" "That requires our aid" "Here Luis Trenker allows himself to be infected" "With African sleeping disease" "So that a vaccine can be tested on him" "And thus this cornucopia may" "Also be a symbolic beginning" "Of future undertakings" "But more sinister and feared" "A small fly rampages among the black people" "The African tse-tse fly" "Its bite transmits the sleeping disease" "In its advanced stages, the disease... 1943." "UFA turns 25." "To celebrate the anniversary:" "the film Münchhausen" "A rather bad film" "An expensive production using many clumsy visual effects" "It is praised to this day" "The desire remains" "To have possessed a flourishing film culture during the Nazi regime" "Germanin, 20 minutes later" "The new vaccine is effective" "Black diseased Africa flocks to the German doctor" "G.P.U (1943)" "By Karl Ritter" "The film portrays the crimes of the Soviet secret service" "It is argued that" "In order to free the G.P.U.'s captives" "Europe has to be laid waste, regrettably" "You need not have fear" "I shall cure you all" "UFA during the war" "For the first time it is not in a crisis" "Occupied Europe proved a gigantic market for film" "An SS-member stands beside the camera" "As if film production had to be monitored" "Clips from nine soundfilms was the title of this production" "With which UFA wanted to present its ongoing war-time productions" "But what you see" "Are scenes already filmed in 1935" "Amphitryon" "The extras were supplied by the SS" "Extras were scarce now" "Most of them had become soldiers" "Supplies were lacking" "Fewer productions were made" "The studios and the compound were bombed" "It was not permitted to show the ruins" "The company was classified as important for the war effort" "Like a steelworks or a munitions factory" "We see" "How the extras struggle to rise" "The theme is classical antiquity" "Slaves made up the work-force" "Hundreds of forced labourers and prisoners" "Had to work for UFA" "That fact was made visible" "The Nazis had started with a surplus of images" "Now there was a lack of images" "How many images have disappeared altogether?" "How many images were made during this time" "But were never shown?" "And conversely," "How much of what was shown" "Was never made into an image?" "In his biography Veit Harlan complained" "That Goebbels had cut quite a few of his scenes" "Scenes that Harlan could have used later on for his exoneration" "There was no proof of innocence" "An image of truth did not exist" "An image that might be true did not exist" "Not even its flipside" "What did exist were emotions and sentiments" "As if the audience had lost theirs" "And subsequently reclaimed them" "Kolberg (1945)" "Opfergang (1944)" "Films by Veit Harlan" "Is it really you?" "Who can say what is real..." "What will you do?" "Say goodbye" "Zwischen Nacht und Morgen (1944)" "Directed by Alfred Braun" "A woman thinks herself ugly to the point of revulsion" "She fears the day when her blind husband may see again" "You win this round, councillor" "I don't know" "Do you want to become my wife?" "Sadness, melancholy and depression" "They are indicated by" "General limpness" "And slow movement" "Eyes look tired, seem void and unfocussed" "The mouth lacks tension" "And imperceptibly drawn downward" "It is as if the person had died inside" "The art of mime (1945)" "To a lesser extent these traits are evident" "In resignation and disappointment" "This is almost UFA's final production" "Made as if" "All that was left were random clips" "A light shaking of the head" "An astonished gaze" "A pained smile at times" "Passes over the joyless mouth" "Long-cherished hopes and expectations" "Have come to a sad end" "Despondency and depression" "Slowness of movements" "Forlorness" "And tiredness of the gaze" "Characterise this group as well" "Particular indicator" "Inclining of the head and gaze" "Culminating in closed eye-lids" "In contrast to despondency, what becomes evident" "Is a momentary show of pain" "Lips are pressed together" "The corners of the mouth are drawn downward" "At the outskirts of Berlin remain" "Ruins of the palace" "Built for cinema more than 70 years ago by Joe May" "What is being searched?" "The story of UFA ends in 1945" "Yet it depressingly continues" "The company was supposed to become liquidated and dissolved" "More than 50 years have passed since then" "The company remains in the process of liquidation" "UFA made films for only 27 years" "During the Adenauer era in 1952" "The film Starke Herzen given the extra title Im Sturm (tempest, assault)" "Had its debut in the Federal Republic" "The very film Goebbels had censored 15 years earlier" "What is being searched?" "Upon passing through the palace, a cavern is found" "There humans are subjected to horrific torture and agony" "The mould" "That has to be shattered in order to recover" "The object that was cast inside of it" "Is called" "The lost mould." "Subtitles for KG (2012) by stefflbw"