Nero-Film AG

The Nero-Film was a German film production company based in Berlin .

The company was founded in 1925 by the producer and director Richard Oswald and the entrepreneur Heinrich Nebenzahl as a subsidiary of Richard Oswald Produktion GmbH and Heinrich Nebenzahl & Co GmbH . The letters "NE" stand for Heinrich Nebenzahl, "RO" for Richard Oswald. In 1927 the company was converted from a GmbH into a stock corporation. Under the influence of Nebenzahl's son Seymour Nebenzahl , Nero-Film, which initially relied on mass-market goods such as Harry Piel films, developed into one of Germany's artistically ambitious production companies in the late 1920s, with directors such as GW Pabst and Fritz Lang produced a number of the most important films of the Weimar period, such as Pandora's Box , Western Front 1918 , The Threepenny Opera , M , Comradeship , The Lady of Atlantis and The Testament of Dr. Mabuse . In the film industry, the bourgeois-democratic Nero-Film - alongside the proletarian Prometheus Film - formed the last artistic bulwark against the emerging National Socialism . After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, Seymour Nebenzahl was forced to emigrate and Nero-Film AG had to stop its work. In Paris and Los Angeles he then ran various film production companies under the renowned name of Nero Film.

Filmography

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• Are we allowed to be silent? ( Richard Oswald , 1925/26)
• What's going on at the Beely Circus? ( Harry Piel , 1926)
• The world wants to be lied to ( Peter Paul Felner , 1926)
• The escape into the night ( Amleto Palermi , 1926)
• His biggest bluff ( Harry Piel , 1927)
• Riddle of a Night ( Harry Piel , 1927)
• The prisoner of Shanghai ( Augusto Genina , Géza von Bolváry , 1927)
• The Leap into Happiness ( Augusto Genina , 1927; German-French co-production)

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• Tragedy in the Royal Circus ( Alfred Lind , 1927/28)
• The continuous woman ( Hanns Schwarz , 1927/28)
• The girl in the street ( Augusto Genina , 1927/28)
• Diary of a cocotte ( Constantin J. David , 1928/29)
• Love Carnival ( Augusto Genina , 1928)
• Pandora's box ( GW Pabst , 1928/29)
• The last supper ( Mario Bonnard , 1928)
• The last fort ( Kurt Bernhardt , 1928)
• Trust of thieves ( Erich Schönfelder , 1929)
• Perjury. A paragraph that kills people ( Georg Jacoby , 1929)
• Jugglers / Les saltimbanques ( Robert Land , 1929/30; German-French co-production)
• Marriage in Need ( Richard Oswald , 1929)
• The Widows Ball (Georg Jacoby, 1929/30)
• Western Front 1918 ( GW Pabst , 1930)
• Eva scandal ( GW Pabst , 1930)
• Kohlhiesel's daughters ( Hans Behrendt , 1930)
• The Threepenny Opera ( GW Pabst , 1930/31)
• The Emperor's Detective ( Carl Boese , 1930)
• Ariane ( Paul Czinner , 1930/31)
• M ( Fritz Lang , 1931)
• Comradeship / La Tragédie de la mine ( GW Pabst , 1931; German-French co-production)
• One night in the Grand Hotel ( Max Neufeld , 1931)
• 24 hours from the life of a woman ( Robert Land , 1931)
• The mistress of Atlantis ( GW Pabst , 1932)
• The will of Dr. Mabuse ( Fritz Lang , 1932/33)
• Le testament du docteur Mabuse ( Fritz Lang , 1932/33; French version)

See also

• German film history
• List of German film production companies

Web links

• www.cinegraph.de Erika Wottrich (Red.): M for secondary number. Nero - film production between Europe and Hollywood
• www.filmportal.de Detailed film data

literature

• Erika Wottrich (Red.): M as in the secondary number. Nero - film production between Europe and Hollywood . edition text + kritik, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-88377-710-2 , ( A CineGraph book ).