!!!Wien-Film

Wien-Film, film studio emerging from the transformation of 
Tobis-Sascha-Filmindustrie (A.  Kolowrat-Krakowsky) in 1938, produced 
successful feature films and documentaries during the first years of 
the Second World War, including films such as "Anton der Letzte" 
(1939), "Operette" (1940), "Der Postmeister"(1940) and "Schrammeln" 
(1944). In 1943/44 it was granted the privilege to produce films in 
colour, which had formerly been the exclusive privilege of the film 
studio Ufa. After the war, Wien-Film kept producing feature films and 
documentaries ("Wiener Maedeln", 1949; "1. April 2000", 1952; 
"Hannerl", 1952). After conclusion of the State Treaty in 1955, 
Wien-Film was handed over to the state. Its productions were mostly 
economic failures and renting the Rosenhuegel film studios to foreign 
production companies (including the Disney-Corporation) was not 
sufficiently profitable. The company was dissolved as a state-owned 
enterprise in 1985, only a company for the preservation of earlier 
productions still survive.

!Literature
W. Guha, Die Geschichte eines oesterreichischen 
Filmunternehmens: Von der Sascha-Film-Fabrik Pfraumberg in Boehmen zur 
Wien-Film, 1975.


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