CCC Film

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CCC Film buildings in Spandau, at the former Königliche Pulverfabrik (Royal gunpowder production founded 1717))

CCC Film (German: Central Cinema Compagnie-Film GmbH) is a German film production company founded in 1946 by

Holocaust-related films, some of which also became successful. In 2009, Brauner donated 21 Holocaust-related films to Yad Vashem
.

1946–1950s

On September 16, 1946, Brauner founded CCC Film with Joseph Einstein, his brother-in-law, a

American sector of postwar Germany. They had money, but no license from the American authorities, without which, it was impossible to produce anything.[1]
Two months later, Einstein quit the enterprise, leaving Brauner as sole owner.

The first CCC-produced film was the 1947

poison gas factory[4] in Haselhorst, a locality in the Spandau district of Berlin. Brauner later said, "Out of the poison-gas factory I wanted to make a dream factory."[4]

In the 1950s, CCC continued producing its proven mix of light-hearted fare and hired directors such as

Akos von Ratony, Kurt Neumann, Paul Martin and Erich Engel. Actors and actresses such as Heinz Rühmann, Maria Schell, Gert Fröbe, Klaus Kinski, Curd Jürgens and Romy Schneider were featured, some, like Kinski, making his film debut. It became one of the largest producers of postwar German-language films[5]
and helped to establish Berlin as a center of German film and television production.

CCC produced

July 20, 1944 attempt on Adolf Hitler's life.[6][note 1] Other more challenging films from the 1950s were Die Ratten (directed by Robert Siodmak) adapted from a play by Nobel Prize winner Gerhart Hauptmann; Studentin Helene Willfüer [de] (1956, directed by Rudolf Jugert) adapted from a book by Vicki Baum; and Vor Sonnenuntergang (1956, directed by Gottfried Reinhardt
), also adapted from Hauptmann.

CCC produced 19 films in 1958 and began working on large productions.[2] By the end of the 1950s, the company had built five additional film studios on its Haselhorst property, outfitting them with equipment for film and television production.

The 1960s

At the end of the 1950s, CCC began a string of

Henry Levin in 1964. The company also began co-producing low-budget films by American B movie directors like Hugo Fregonese and Russ Meyer. Brauner tried to establish a London production base, but abandoned this after making two films, one of which was Station Six-Sahara (1962) by Seth Holt
.

In the mid-1960s, the

Doctor Mabuse films and movies with sequels, such as The Treasure of the Aztecs and its sequel, The Pyramid of the Sun God. Nonetheless, when German television station ZDF moved to Mainz
and no longer used CCC facilities to produce their programs, Brauner was forced to reverse his company's expansion of just a few years earlier.

The 1970s and beyond

In 1970, CCC Film co-produced

Academy Award
for Best Foreign Language Film.

With his large studio space less in demand and his staff already reduced from over 200 in the 1950s to 85, Brauner closed the studios and laid off his remaining employees in September 1970,

Auschwitz
.

In 2009, Brauner donated 21 of his Holocaust-related films to Yad Vashem,[8] and in his honor, Yad Vashem named its media research center after him.[9]

Notes

  1. Third Reich
    .

References

  1. ^
    Heise
     Online. (August 23, 2008) Retrieved March 1, 2012 (in German)
  2. ^ a b "Sein letztes Kapitel"[permanent dead link] Der Tagesspiegel (April 21, 2008). Retrieved March 1, 2012 (in German)
  3. ^ Jan Schulz-Ojala, "Der Tycoon, ein Kumpel" Der Tagesspiegel (August 1, 2003). Retrieved March 1, 2012 (in German)
  4. ^ a b c William Boston, "Burying the Past" Time (October 1, 2003). Retrieved February 29, 2012
  5. ^ Description of the Artur Brauner Archive at the Deutsches Film Institute European Film Gateway. Retrieved March 1, 2012
  6. ^ Der 20. Juli Archived 2007-10-29 at the Wayback Machine Fritz Bauer Institut / Cinematography of the Holocaust. Retrieved March 1, 2012
  7. Heise
     Online. (August 23, 2008). Retrieved March 2, 2012 (in German)
  8. ^ "German film producer to receive Yad Vashem honour" Archived 2014-01-10 at the Wayback Machine Deutsche Presse-Agentur (2010). Retrieved March 1, 2012
  9. ^ Liat Benhabib and Mimi Ash, "Visual Center Receives Artur Brauner Film Collection" (PDF) Yad Vashem Jerusalem Quarterly Magazine Vol. 57, (April 2010), p. 20. Retrieved March 1, 2012

Sources

  • Artur Brauner, Mich gibt's nur einmal – Rückblende eines Lebens. Munich (1978) (in German)
  • Claudia Dillmann, Artur Brauner und die CCC – Filmgeschäft, Produktionsalltag, Studiogeschichte 1946–1990. Frankfurt am Main (1990) (in German)

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