1911 created Filmstudio the Babelsberg in Potsdam-Babelsberg is the oldest Grossfilmstudio of the world.

The founder years

The first building on that today approximately 240,000 m large area was of the company a "bio copilot" established Filmatelier", in which 1912 the first turning work was taken up. In the first year the silent movie the dead dance of Urban Gad with Asta Nielsen in the main role developed. Later it came to the fusion of "Bioscope" with the "Decla", the German address of the French film company "Eclair", to the "Decla Bioscope". This was taken over 1921 of the "Ufa". Subsequently, here 1926 for the Science Fiction film "Metropolis" developed from Fritz long a large studio, which Dietrich-resounded today's Marlene. In the same year became for "melody of the heart", which, on the area a studio establishes first German Tonfilm - the so-called clay/tone cross. It was the most modern Tonstudio of its time with four cross-shaped arranged studios. 1930 turned Josef of star mountain the blue angel with Marlene Dietrich.

The NS time

During the third realm under it also numerous propaganda films developed such as Jud sweet over 1.000 films. After the end of the Second World War became with Wolfgang Staudtes film the murderers are among us to 4. May 1946 the film production again taken up.

The post-war period up to the turn

After the establishment of the DEFA to 17. May of the same yearly more than 150 child films developed as well as in the years of 1959 and 1990 over 600 films for the German television radio between 1946 and 1990 there over 700 Spielfime.

The Filmstudio today

On 1 July 1990 the area of the trust was transferred in the context of the assumption of the DEFA, which sold it to 1992 to French the company "Compagnie of the Eaux" (today Vivendi universal). Million-sums were invested into the development that of Studios and the structure of the medium city. The Studio Babelsberg is today part of the "medium city Babelsberg" to also the film park Babelsberg, the university for film and television Konrad wolf, the transmission center of the RBB, the German broadcast museum and German broadcast archives as well as office building with film productions. 2004 changed it again the owner and became to the "holding company FBB - film enterprises Berlin Brandenburg GmbH" sells.

Further important films, those developed there for Beyond The Sea, Flightplan (2005) or V in the last years infinite history, sun avenue (1999), Mr. Lehmann, Rosenstrasse, in 80 days around the world (2004), such as Vendetta.

For the film sun avenue was established 1999 particularly a complex external window blind to "citizens of Berlin of a road" (), which was used also in some further productions and is observable from the road.

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