Vita film
The Vita-Film was founded in 1919 as the successor company of the Viennese art film industry of Anton and Luise Kolm founded.
By 1923, Vita-Film built the Rosenhügel film studios that still exist today and are used for film productions . The monumental film " Samson and Delila ", which was very popular in those years based on the American model, was produced on the premises there as early as 1922, before the studios were finally completed . With elaborate backdrops and costumes, as was also the case with the direct competitor Sascha-Film , the production came to a considerable length and cost of 12 million crowns .
In contrast to Sascha-Film, which was oriented towards US productions, Vita-Film sought international success with contacts in France. In 1923 the directors Germaine Dulac ( Die dying sun , 1923), Jean Legrand ( Das Haus im Walde , 1923), Severin Mars ( Horoga , 1923), M. Liabel ( The island without love , 1923) and Edouard-Emile worked for individual projects Violet ( clown for love , 1923) for Vita-Film. The Belgian director and one of the early realists , Jacques Feyder , shot “Das Bildnis” at Rosenhügel and in Hungary in 1924 , based on a script by the well-known writer Jules Romains . The film was the last Vita film production to appear in cinemas in 1925.
In 1924 the company, like many other European film production companies at the time , went bankrupt due to the glut of inexpensive, but high-quality, American films . The Rosenhügel studios were taken over by Sascha-Film in 1933 .
Productions
(Selection)
- 1922 - Samson and Delilah
- 1922 - A sunken world
- 1923 - Hoffmann's Tales (Director: Max Neufeld ; first performance on April 6th in the Schwarzenbergkino)
- 1925 - Das Bildnis (L'Image) (director: Jacques Feyder ; last Vita film production at Rosenhügel)
See also
- Cinema and film in Austria
- List of Austrian film production companies
- List of Austrian silent films
- Austrian film history
