100 Years Studio Babelsberg - The Art Of Filmmaking - Chris Wahl

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Résumé :
Celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2012, Studio Babelsberg is the oldest large-stage film studio in the world and the biggest one-stop studio complex in Europe. From box office hits to artistic triumphs, many of them have been created in Babelsberg... In these sound stages, stars like Marlene Dietrich were born, and here beats the heart of German cinema to this day. Babelsberg has always been a source of technical and artistic innovation. Many key developments in set design, special effects, camera technology, and sound recording originated in these studios. Ail eras of the studio's history are spread out and illuminated in front of the eyes of the reader : the early days of motion pictures, the Golden Age of Weimar cinema, the politically dark days of the "Third Reich," the socialist turn of Germany's largest postwar film company DEFA, and, most of ail, Babelsberg's current commercial and cultural importance in the international film business.

Biographie:
Dr. Michael Wedel is Professor of Media History at the Film and Television University "Konrad Wolf" (HFF) in Potsdam- Babelsberg, Germany, and codirector of the Film Museum Potsdam. Dr. Chris Wahl is a Research Fellow at the Film and Television University "Konrad Wolf" (HFF) in Potsdam- Babelsberg, Germany. He is the author and editor of books on Ufa, Kurt Hoffmann, and Werner Herzog. Dr. Raft Schenk is a film historian and film critic based in Berlin. He is one of the leading experts on the history of DEFA and has edited and authored a number of seminal books on this topic.