Berolina Film

{{Verification|date=September 2022}}{{short description|German film production company}} '''Berolina Film''' (often shortened to '''Berolina''') was a [[film production]] company that operated in [[West Germany]] between 1948 and 1964. The company's productions were supervised by the experienced [[Kurt Ulrich]] and were based in [[West Berlin]].<ref>Davidson & Hake p.195</ref> The company helped launch a cycle of popular [[heimatfilm]] made in the 1950s.<ref>Hake p.90</ref>

The company's 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 (1924 film)|The Hands of Orlac]]''.

==Selected films== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * ''[[Everything Will Be Better in the Morning]]'' (1948) * ''[[By a Nose (1949 film)|By a Nose]]'' (1949) * ''[[The Black Forest Girl (1950 film)|The Black Forest Girl]]'' (1950) * ''[[The Heath Is Green (1951 film)|The Heath Is Green]]'' (1951) * ''[[The Land of Smiles (1952 film)|The Land of Smiles]]'' (1952) * ''[[When the Heath Dreams at Night]]'' (1952) * ''[[I Can't Marry Them All]]'' (1952) * ''[[Mailman Mueller]]'' (1953) * ''[[The Gypsy Baron (1954 film)|The Gypsy Baron]]'' (1954) * ''[[Love is Forever (1954 film)|Love is Forever]]'' (1954) * ''[[Emil and the Detectives (1954 film)|Emil and the Detectives]]'' (1954) * ''[[My Leopold (1955 film)|My Leopold]]'' (1955) * ''[[The Happy Wanderer (1955 film)|The Happy Wanderer]]'' (1955) * ''[[The Three from the Filling Station (1955 film)|The Three from the Filling Station]]'' (1955) * ''[[Spy for Germany]]'' (1956) * ''[[Black Forest Melody]]'' (1956) * ''[[Spring in Berlin]]'' (1957) * ''[[Iron Gustav (film)|Iron Gustav]]'' (1958) * ''[[The Gypsy Baron (1962 film)|The Gypsy Baron]]'' (1962) * ''[[I Learned It from Father]]'' (1964) * ''[[Legend of a Gunfighter]]'' (1964) {{div col end}}

==References== {{Reflist}}

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

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