The Spandau Studios or CCC Studios were film and television studios located in
Spandau
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, a suburb of
Berlin
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. They were established in 1949 following the
Second World War
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by the producer
Artur Brauner
Artur "Atze" Brauner (born Abraham Brauner; 1 August 1918 – 7 July 2019) was a German film producer and entrepreneur of Polish origin. He produced more than 300 films from 1946.
Life and career
He was born the oldest son of a Jewish family ...
controller of
CCC Films, on the site of a former factory.
[Bergfelder p.106] Following the
Soviet occupation of East Germany, most of the major film studios in the capital were, with the exception of the
Tempelhof Studios, located in
East Berlin
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until Brauner opened his own studios.
Brauner produced a number of popular genre films over the following decades, including several remakes of
Weimar era hits. Space was also rented out to other firms, and the 1960s saw the series of
Edgar Wallace
Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 – 10 February 1932) was a British writer of crime and adventure fiction.
Born into poverty as an illegitimate London child, Wallace left school at the age of 12. He joined the army at age 21 and was ...
films made at Spandau by
Rialto Film.
References
Bibliography
* Baer, Hester. ''Dismantling the Dream Factory: Gender, German Cinema, and the Postwar Quest for a New Film Language''. Berghahn Books, 2012.
* Bergfelder, Tim. ''International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s''. Berghahn Books, 2005.
German film studios
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