Polar film
| Polar film + media | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1996 |
| Seat | Essen , Germany |
| management | Klaus Schröder |
| Branch | Film distribution |
| Website | polarfilm.de |
Polar Film + Medien GmbH is a media company founded in 1996 that sells documentaries, feature films, television series and audio books on DVDs and CDs . Polar Film is best known for the distribution of contemporary documentary films, including third-party and in-house productions.
The company was founded in 1996 by Karl Höffkes and Johannes A. Haneke. History documentaries produced in-house are mainly based on the film collection of Karl Höffkes, who owns one of the largest archives of privately shot film material from the period up to 1945. In 2010 Höffkes and Haneke Polar Film sold to Schröder Media. The company headquarters was Gescher until 2012 and was then relocated to Münster ; meanwhile the company headquarters are in Essen .
Documentation about the time of National Socialism and the Second World War is a focus of the sales program . A series of its own within this segment is made up of compilation films made exclusively from historical color film material (“33-45 in Color”, “Color Films from the Third Reich”, “The Browns in Color”). ZDF productions (“Holokaust”, “Göring - Eine Karriere”), Spiegel-TV , N 24 and N-tv (“Everyday life under the swastika 1-6”) are also licensed . The second pillar of the sales program is made up of editions of classic and modern TV series, including everything revolves around Michael , Till, the boy next door , Wilsberg , Jakob and Adele , as well as TV documentaries with political, ecological and tourist subjects.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Agency Karl Höffkes: Filmarchiv
- ↑ mediabiz.de: Klaus Schröder takes over Polar Film