Rialto movie
The Rialto Film GmbH is in Berlin -based film production company.
history
The Danish Rialto Film, whose former subsidiary is today's German company, was founded in Copenhagen in 1897 by Constantin Philipsen . His son Preben Philipsen founded the film distribution company Constantin-Film, named after his father, in 1950 with Waldfried Barthel , thereby gaining a foothold on the German film market.
In 1959 the Danish Rialto Film produced the Edgar Wallace film The Frog with the Mask for Constantin Film. Then Philipsen acquired the exclusive rights for the filming of other novels of Edgar Wallace and founded on 18 August 1960, the German film Kaufmann Franz Sulley the Rialto Film production and film distribution GmbH in Frankfurt .
In 1960 Horst Wendlandt became head of production and, after Sulley's departure in 1961, managing director of the German Rialto Film, whose headquarters were moved to Hamburg in 1960 and to Berlin in September 1962 with Wendlandt as a partner . In 1963, on Wendlandt's initiative, the new Rialto Film Preben Philipsen GmbH & Co. KG was founded in West Berlin. The old Rialto Film Preben Philipsen GmbH acted as general partner . From 1966 to 1970 Peter Sundarp was film director of Rialto Film.
Constantin Film Rialto produced film under Wendlandt line beside the Edgar Wallace films in 1962 and the film Treasure of Silver Lake , which until 1966 numerous other successful Karl May movies followed. A total of nine Karl May films were made by Rialto Film by 1966 and 32 Edgar Wallace films by 1972 and numerous others, e.g. T. extremely successful entertainment films. From 1972 the films of the Rialto were mostly awarded by Tobis Film , founded by Wendlandt .
After financial difficulties in his Danish homeland, Preben Philipsen withdrew from the film business in 1976 and sold his shares to Horst Wendlandt, who was now the sole managing director of Rialto Film GmbH .
In the following years, Rialto Film was able to assert itself in the film business with the production and co-production of films with Louis de Funès , Loriot , Otto Waalkes , Terence Hill , Bud Spencer and many others.
In September 1992, Wendlandt's son Matthias joined Rialto Film as managing director. The daughter Susan Wendlandt-Nielebock has also been a partner in Rialto since 1992 . She produces feature films and documentaries herself through her own company, Krümel Film .
Since the death of Horst Wendlandt on August 30, 2002, Matthias Wendlandt has continued his father's work together with his son Felix Wendlandt. Felix Wendtland has been managing director of Rialto Film since 2010.
Filmography (selection)
See also
Web links
- Official website
- Rialto movie in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Joachim Kramp: Hello - Here is Edgar Wallace , 2nd ed., P. 99
- ↑ Peter Sundarp at spio-fsk.de, accessed on January 16, 2017
- ^ Rialto Film. Retrieved August 6, 2020 .