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The Roxy Film GmbH is a 1951 by Luggi Forest Leitner in Munich , founded film production company . It has been run by producers Andreas Richter , Annie Brunner and Ursula Woerner since 2001 .

Luggi Waldleitner's production company

The Roxy-Film initially produced entertainment films with popular stars such as Winnie Markus , OW Fischer , Maria Schell and Dieter Borsche as well as literary adaptations . In 1955, she made the first European cinemascope film Oase as an international co-production, directed by Yves Allégret and Joseph Kessel . The girl Rosemarie (1958), directed by Rolf Thiele , led to a headline-grabbing scandal in Germany as well as to its first international recognition thanks to its taboo-breaking topic and its innovative satirical style. The film received the Critics' Prize at the Venice Film Festival and a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film .

The eight film adaptations of the novels by Johannes Mario Simmel achieved great popularity between 1969 and 1978. The Roxy-Film produced both the films of internationally known directors such as Massimo Dallamano ( Venus in Furs , 1969), Dino Risi ( The two faces of a woman , 1980) or Vittorio and Paolo Taviani ( Fiorile , 1992), as well as works from New German Cinema by filmmakers such as Hans W. Geißendörfer ( Sternsteinhof , 1975) or Rainer Werner Fassbinder ( Lili Marleen , 1980).

1979 Hans W. Geißendörfer's The Glass Cell was nominated for an Oscar ; previously he had already received the Federal Film Prize in gold for the best film. Even Caroline Link's Beyond Silence (1996) won both Federal Film Awards and Bavarian film awards an Oscar nomination.

Reorganization after Waldleitner's death

After Waldleitner's death in 1998, Roxy Film was sold to the Kirch Group and temporarily stopped production. In 2001, Kirch employees Andreas Richter, Annie Brunner and Ursula Woerner revitalized Roxy Film and took over as managing partners in 2004 as part of a management buyout . In 2009 the corporate form changed from a GmbH & Co. KG to a GmbH.

The new managing directors initially switched to the production of television films. With Marcus H. Rosenmüller's Who dies earlier is longer dead , Roxy Film was able to build on its box office success and in 2007 again won Bavarian and German film awards. Her second feature film Almanya - Willkommen in Deutschland was invited to the competition program of the Berlinale 2011 and was awarded the German Film Prize 2011 in silver. As a further collaboration with Marcus H. Rosenmüller, the cinema comedy Summer in Orange was created in 2010 about a Berlin Bhagwan commune that moved to the Upper Bavarian province in 1980.

Filmography (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roxy Film: History , accessed April 8, 2011

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