Berolina Film

Berolina Film (often shortened to Berolina) was a film production company which operated in West Germany between 1948 and 1964. The film's production was supervised by the experienced Kurt Ulrich and was based in West Berlin.^[1] The company helped launch a cycle of popular heimatfilm made in the 1950s.^[2]

The companies name is a reference to Berolina, the allegorical female figure representing the city of Berlin. It was also the name of a short-lived company from the 1920s, notable for producing the 1924 film The Hands of Orlac.

Selected films

• The Black Forest Girl (1950)
• The Heath Is Green (1951)
• The Land of Smiles (1952)
• Mailman Mueller (1953)
• Baron Tzigane (1954)
• Love is Forever (1954)
• My Leopold (1955)
• The Three from the Filling Station (1955)
• Spy for Germany (1956)

References

1. Davidson & Hake p.195
2. Hake p.90

Bibliography

• Davidson, John & Hake, Sabine. Framing the Fifties: Cinema in a Divided Germany. Berghahn Books, 2008.
• Hake, Sabine. German National Cinema. Routledge, 2002.