Ultra film

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The Ultra-Film GmbH was a German production company for the synchronization of films.

After the Motion Picture Export Association (MPEA), a merger of several Hollywood studios, dissolved its German dubbing department at the end of 1949, the production manager EG Techow and the directors Josef Wolf and Alfred Vohrer founded Ultra-Film GmbH in 1950 . They took over the MPEA dubbing studios on the Bavaria film studios near Munich. Benefiting from state subsidies, the company relocated its headquarters to Berlin in 1952 and was now called Ultrasynchronous . They maintained their studios in the Mosaik-Film building in Lankwitz , where the MPEA dubbing department was also located in its last two years of operation. Other tenants in the building were a. also the Berliner Synchron and the elite film Franz Schröder.

EG Techow left Ultrasynchronous in 1956 and founded the Arena Synchron in Munich (not to be confused with the Berlin dubbing company that was founded in 1972 and still exists today), while Wolf and Vohrer also wanted to gain a foothold in film production. The company, now renamed Ultra-Film Berlin GmbH, produced three films directed by Vohrer and produced by Wolf: Dirty Angel (1958), Crime After School Ending (1959), At 17 You Don't Cry (1960). Vohrer then went his own way and became known a little later through the Edgar Wallace films . For his films Unter Vultures , Old Surehand and Winnetou and his friend Old Firehand , he was again active as a dubbing director for Ultra-Film.

In the 1950s and 1960s, Ultra-Film was the most important German dubbing company alongside Berliner Synchron. In addition to the James Bond films , productions such as African Queen , The Great Dictator , Lawrence of Arabia , Cleopatra , Broken Chains , Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? , Bullitt , hang it higher or someone flew over the cuckoo's nest to the most famous works of the dubbing studio. While the majority of the films were recorded in Berlin, the ultra film was also available to her dubbing studio in Munich, which she used, especially in times of high demand.

At the beginning of 1974, Ultra-Film ceased operations. Josef Wolf's family continued to run the Munich branch under the name of cine-adaption and in the following years created a few more dubbed versions, mostly of films distributed by United Artists and Warner .