{{short description|Austrian film company}} [[File:Sascha-Film Wien Ansicht 2009.jpg|thumb|300px|Former headquarters in Vienna.]] [[File:Sascha Filmindustrie AG 1919.jpg|thumb|Share of the Sascha Filmindustrie AG, issued 15 November 1919]] [[File:Sascha Kolowrat-Krakowsky.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Count Alexander Kolowrat-Krakowski at the studio in 1916]] '''Sascha-Film''', in full '''Sascha-Filmindustrie AG''' and from 1933 '''Tobis-Sascha-Filmindustrie AG''', was the largest [[Austria]]n film production company of the [[silent film]] and early [[sound film]] period.
==History== The business was established in 1910 by [[Alexander Kolowrat|Alexander Joseph "Sascha", Count Kolowrat-Krakowsky]] as the ''Sascha-Filmfabrik'' ("Sascha Film Factory") in [[Pfraumberg]] in [[Bohemia]], and relocated in 1912 to [[Vienna]]. During [[World War I]] the company produced war newsreels and propaganda films, with a large studio being built in 1916 in Vienna-Severing. On 10 September 1918, after the merger with the [[film distributor]]s Philipp & Pressburger, the business became the ''Sascha-Filmindustrie AG''.<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.avid.wiki/Sascha-Film|title=Sascha-Film|date=June 26, 2025|website=Audiovisual Identity Database}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cinema-austriaco.org/en/2022/01/22/production-companies-during-world-war-i/|title=Production companies during World War I | Cinema Austriaco|first=Marina|last=Pavido|date=January 22, 2022}}</ref>
Sascha produced [[epic film]]s such as [[Alexander Korda]]'s ''[[Prinz und Bettelknabe]]'' ("Prince and Beggar") (1920), [[Michael Curtiz]]'s ''[[Sodom und Gomorrha]]'' (1922), and Curtiz's ''[[Die Sklavenkönigin]]'' ("The Slave Queen") (1924). After Kolowrat-Krakowsky's death in 1927, the Sievering studio was set up to produce sound films in 1932, and a studio in Rosenhügel was acquired in 1933.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=http://www.wien-vienna.at/freizeit.php?ID=368|title=Wien - Kino - Film|website=www.wien-vienna.at|access-date=2007-11-26|archive-date=2007-09-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927215910/http://www.wien-vienna.at/freizeit.php?ID=368|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.s/s125819.htm|title=Sascha-Film|website=www.aeiou.at}}</ref>
Around 1933/1934 the German enterprise '''Tobis-Tonbild-Syndikat''' was amalgamated with the company, known formally from then on as the '''Tobis-Sascha-Filmindustrie AG'''. In 1938, in the context of the [[Anschluss]], by which Austria was annexed to the [[Third Reich]], the concern passed into the ownership of the [[National Socialist]] government and was re-founded as [[Wien-Film GmbH]]. Its best-known director of the period to the end of the war was [[Gustav Ucicky]]. After the end of the [[World War II|war]] the name Sascha-Film was re-established for a couple of decades, and in the 1950s and 1960s produced light entertainment films.<ref name="auto1"/><ref name="auto"/>
== Selected films== * 1912: ''Die Gewinnung des Erzes am steirischen Erzberg in Eisenerz'' ("The extraction of ore on the Styrian ore mountain in Eisenerz"; documentary, c. 6 min; direction by [[Sascha Kolowrat-Krakowsky]]) * 1912: ''[[Kaiser Joseph II.]]'' * 1913: ''{{ill|Der Millionenonkel|de||fr}}'' (c. 60 min; direction by [[Hubert Marischka]]) * 1915: ''[[The Other I (film)|The Other I]]'' ({{lang|de|Das andere Ich}}) (direction by [[Fritz Freisler]]) * 1916: ''[[Wien im Kriege]]'' (direction by [[Heinz Hanus]]) * 1917: ''[[Heldenkampf in Schnee und Eis]]'' * 1918: ''[[Der Mandarin]]'' (61 min; direction by [[Paul Frank (writer)|Paul Frank]], Fritz Freisler) * 1921: ''[[Good and Evil (film)]]'' (direction by [[Michael Curtiz]]) * 1922: ''[[Sodom und Gomorrha]]'' (direction by [[Michael Curtiz]]) * 1922: ''[[Harun al Raschid (film)|Harun al Raschid]]'' (direction by Michael Curtiz) * 1923: ''[[Der junge Medardus]]'' (direction by Michael Curtiz) * 1924: ''[[Die Sklavenkönigin]]'' (70 min; direction by Michael Curtiz) * 1925: ''[[Das Spielzeug von Paris]]'' (direction by [[Michael Curtiz]]) * 1927: ''[[Café Elektric]]'' (direction by [[Gustav Ucicky]]) * 1927: ''[[Die Pratermizzi]]'' * 1929: ''[[Bright Eyes (1929 film)|Bright Eyes]]'' ([[co-production (filmmaking)|co-production]] with [[British International Pictures]]) * 1930: ''[[Geld auf der Straße]]'' (direction by [[Georg Jacoby]]) * 1934: ''[[Maskerade (film)|Maskerade]]'' (direction by [[Willi Forst]]) * 1934: ''[[Hohe Schule (film)|Hohe Schule]]'' (direction by [[Erich Engel]])
== See also == * [[Cinema of Austria]]
== References == {{reflist}} * Herbert Polak, 1948. ''30 Jahre Sascha-Film: Festschrift der Sascha-Film Verein- und Vertriebs- Ges. m.b.H. Wien''. Vienna.
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