Allianz film

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Allianz-Film GmbH was a European film distributor based in Frankfurt am Main (Taunusstrasse 52-60). The company, which was founded in 1949, also placed production orders, primarily for French productions, and was financed between 1950 and 1955 through state guarantee loans. After the guarantees expired, the company had to file for bankruptcy in December 1956. Allianz-Film GmbH is known among other things for the "Don Camillo" film series.

The bankruptcy of Allianz-Film GmbH in 1956 served Georg Gnieser in his article for the weekly newspaper Die Zeit as an example of the uneconomical approach to public guarantees for companies in the German film industry. Such guarantee loans were first granted by the Deutsche Revisions- und Treuhand-AG, later by the Bürgschafts GmbH. Gnieser criticized the state creation of a "nature reserve" in which companies in the film industry were artificially kept alive with public funds. DER SPIEGEL was similarly critical of the “Bonn film bureaucracy”.

Films (selection)

  • 1950: Epilog (first rental)
  • 1951: White Shadows (first rental)
  • 1951: Germany's gateway to the world (first rental)
  • 1952/1953: Käpt'n Bay-Bay (first rental)
  • 1954/1955: Napoléon (first rental)
  • 1955: Three girls from the Rhine (first rental)
  • 1955: Star of Rio
  • 1955: The Major and the Bulls (production company)
  • 1956: My father, the actor (first rental)

literature

  • Living Pictures of a City: Cinema and Film in Frankfurt am Main , edited by Hilmar Hoffmann, Walter Schobert, Rudolf Worschech and the Deutsches Filmmuseum Frankfurt am Main. German Film Museum (publisher), 1995.
  • Georg Gnieser: The "worm" in the cigarette box . In: Die Zeit , No. 3/1957.
  • Crisis: The Third Act of Tragedy . In: Der Spiegel . No. 51 , 1956 ( online ).

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