Arthaus is a major German producer of art films and classical music DVDs founded in 1994. Arthaus is a brand of Kinowelt Home Entertainment Gmbh, which is now owned by

Studiocanal StudioCanal S.A.S. (formerly known as Le Studio Canal+, Canal Plus, Canal+ Distribution, Canal+ D.A., Canal+ Production, and Canal+ Image and also known as StudioCanal International) is a French film production and distribution company that owns ...

. Arthaus acquired the video back-catalogue of

Filmverlag der Autoren ''Filmverlag der Autoren'' is a German film distributor that was founded in 1971 to help finance and distribute independent films by German ''Autorenfilm'' directors, that is directors who are renowned for predominantly adapting their own screenpl ...

in 1999, and then EuroArts giving it hundreds of art-films,

opera Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a librett ...

ballet Ballet () is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. It has since become a widespread and highly technical form of ...

, and concert titles to draw upon.Billboard - Aug 12, 2000 - Page 36 "With Kinowelt having acquired catalogs from EuroArts and other major studios, Arthaus has hundreds of opera, dance, and concert titles to gradually draw upon."

Special Editions

The ''Arthaus Premium'' edition includes new editions of film classics such as

The Third Man ''The Third Man'' is a 1949 British film noir directed by Carol Reed, written by Graham Greene and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, and Trevor Howard. Set in postwar Vienna, the film centres on American Holly Martins (Cotten), ...

. The ''Arthaus Collection'' edition includes 50 works by renowned directors. This series was continued with ''Arthaus Collection Classics'', ''Arthaus Collection Classics II'', ''Arthaus Collection Literature'', ''Arthaus Collection Literature II'', ''Arthaus Collection Asian Cinema'', ''Arthaus Collection British Cinema'', ''Arthaus Collection American Independent Cinema'' and ''Arthaus Collection Documentary Film''. Together with Rolling Stone magazine, Arthaus presents the ''Music Movies Collection'' with twelve music films. The limited ''Filmverlag der Autoren Edition'' contains 50 works from 1968 to 2008, including 22 on DVD for the first time, and an illustrated book with 160 pages. The ''Edition Deutscher Film'' includes 50 works from 1924 to 2009 and is the first comprehensive series on German film. The StudioCanal Collection presents older films (The Elephant Man and others) on Blu-ray for the first time with new bonus material and a 20-page booklet.

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* http://www.arthaus.de/ German record labels Film distributors of Germany StudioCanal {{film-company-stub