Artur Brauner

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Artur Brauner (left) shaking hands with Willy Brandt.

Artur "Atze" Brauner (born Abraham Brauner 1 August 1918) is a polish film producer and entrepreneur. He was born to a Jewish family in Łódź, Poland. Artur and his brother Wolf survived the Holocaust by fleeing to the Soviet Union, then emigrated to Berlin after the war. [1]

As a young man he saw Fritz Lang's film The Testament of Dr. Mabuse that affected him greatly, making him interested in film. In September 1946 he founded the Central Cinema Company or CCC Films in the American sector of Berlin. He prouduced Sag' die Wahrheit, one of the first films produced in Germany after the war, followed by Morituri. Brauner realised that to produce critically successful films he had to make up their losses by producing critically derided films that were appreciated by the public. He lured back many Germans who had experience in Hollywood such as Robert Siodmak, Lil Dagover and later Fritz Lang who started a revival of Dr. Mabuse.[2]


Contents

[edit] Partial filmography

[edit] Awards

[edit] Further reading

Artur Brauner: "Mich gibt's nur einmal" Munkeno, Berlin, (Herbig) 1976

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ p.60 Bock, By Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema Berghahn Books
  2. ^ pp. 131-142 Kalat, David German Trash Cinema: The Story of Artur Brauner in The Strange Case of Dr. Mabuse: A Study of the Twelve Films and Five Novels 2005 McFarland

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