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The Real-Film was a German film production company .

history

On January 10, 1947, Walter Koppel , sub-trustee for the Ufa cinemas in Hamburg , was granted the license to produce films and it was handed over on February 19. He founded Real-Film GmbH with his partner Gyula Trebitsch . Koppel took over the overall management, while Trebitsch was responsible for the production management.

On March 1, 1947, the shooting of the first film began. At the beginning of 1948 an old villa, a former officers' mess in Hamburg-Wandsbek, was rented and gradually expanded into a studio complex. The DEFA provided valuable help with this , but for that reason and because of Koppel's past, who was a KPD member from 1945 to 1947, the federal government refused to provide a guarantee in 1951. There was a legal dispute until 1953, which brought film production to a standstill.

With the support of the city of Hamburg and the commitment of well-known filmmakers, Koppel was rehabilitated. Production was resumed on March 24, 1953. Real-Film profited from the German cinema miracle in the 1950s and made Hamburg a film city. Mainly revue films , film comedies and literary adaptations were produced , but only relatively rarely the typical Heimat films of the time . The greatest success was undoubtedly 1956 Der Hauptmann von Köpenick with Heinz Rühmann .

In 1960 the company was split up. From now on Koppel managed Real-Film Walter Koppel KG , Trebitsch Realfilm-Atelier-Betriebs GmbH , in which Norddeutsche Werbefernsehen GmbH held 80%. Just a year later, the latter became the “ Studio Hamburg ” of the television company and Trebitsch became a television producer.

Koppel, on the other hand, continued to focus exclusively on cinema. His Real-Film took over 70% of Europa-Verleih in August 1961, a film distributor with which it had previously worked closely. Koppel now became its managing director. But all of the films that he now produced under his sole responsibility did not correspond to the changed tastes of the 1960s and turned out to be failures. Koppel now campaigned for the representatives of the New German Cinema who had declared “Grandpa's Cinema” dead in the Oberhausen manifesto . But it was too late. On November 26, 1962, Europa-Verleih filed for settlement and in March 1963 Real-Film, which went bankrupt two years later.

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