# Sascha-Film

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Austrian film company

Former headquarters in Vienna.

Share of the Sascha Filmindustrie AG, issued 15 November 1919

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 [Austrian](/source/Austria) film production company of the [silent film](/source/Silent_film) and early [sound film](/source/Sound_film) period.

## History

The business was established in 1910 by [Alexander Joseph "Sascha", Count Kolowrat-Krakowsky](/source/Alexander_Kolowrat) as the *Sascha-Filmfabrik* ("Sascha Film Factory") in [Pfraumberg](/source/Pfraumberg) in [Bohemia](/source/Bohemia), and relocated in 1912 to [Vienna](/source/Vienna). During [World War I](/source/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 distributors](/source/Film_distributor) Philipp & Pressburger, the business became the *Sascha-Filmindustrie AG*.[1][2]

Sascha produced [epic films](/source/Epic_film) such as [Alexander Korda](/source/Alexander_Korda)'s *[Prinz und Bettelknabe](/source/Prinz_und_Bettelknabe)* ("Prince and Beggar") (1920), [Michael Curtiz](/source/Michael_Curtiz)'s *[Sodom und Gomorrha](/source/Sodom_und_Gomorrha)* (1922), and Curtiz's *[Die Sklavenkönigin](/source/Die_Sklavenk%C3%B6nigin)* ("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.[3][4]

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](/source/Anschluss), by which Austria was annexed to the [Third Reich](/source/Third_Reich), the concern passed into the ownership of the [National Socialist](/source/National_Socialist) government and was re-founded as [Wien-Film GmbH](/source/Wien-Film_GmbH). Its best-known director of the period to the end of the war was [Gustav Ucicky](/source/Gustav_Ucicky). After the end of the [war](/source/World_War_II) the name Sascha-Film was re-established for a couple of decades, and in the 1950s and 1960s produced light entertainment films.[1][3]

## 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](/source/Sascha_Kolowrat-Krakowsky))

- 1912: *[Kaiser Joseph II.](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kaiser_Joseph_II.&action=edit&redlink=1)*

- 1913: *[Der Millionenonkel](/source/Der_Millionenonkel)* (c. 60 min; direction by [Hubert Marischka](/source/Hubert_Marischka))

- 1915: *[The Other I](/source/The_Other_I_(film))* (*Das andere Ich*) (direction by [Fritz Freisler](/source/Fritz_Freisler))

- 1916: *[Wien im Kriege](/source/Wien_im_Kriege)* (direction by [Heinz Hanus](/source/Heinz_Hanus))

- 1917: *[Heldenkampf in Schnee und Eis](/source/Heldenkampf_in_Schnee_und_Eis)*

- 1918: *[Der Mandarin](/source/Der_Mandarin)* (61 min; direction by [Paul Frank](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul_Frank_(writer)&action=edit&redlink=1), Fritz Freisler)

- 1921: *[Good and Evil (film)](/source/Good_and_Evil_(film))* (direction by [Michael Curtiz](/source/Michael_Curtiz))

- 1922: *[Sodom und Gomorrha](/source/Sodom_und_Gomorrha)* (direction by [Michael Curtiz](/source/Michael_Curtiz))

- 1922: *[Harun al Raschid](/source/Harun_al_Raschid_(film))* (direction by Michael Curtiz)

- 1923: *[Der junge Medardus](/source/Der_junge_Medardus)* (direction by Michael Curtiz)

- 1924: *[Die Sklavenkönigin](/source/Die_Sklavenk%C3%B6nigin)* (70 min; direction by Michael Curtiz)

- 1925: *[Das Spielzeug von Paris](/source/Das_Spielzeug_von_Paris)* (direction by [Michael Curtiz](/source/Michael_Curtiz))

- 1927: *[Café Elektric](/source/Caf%C3%A9_Elektric)* (direction by [Gustav Ucicky](/source/Gustav_Ucicky))

- 1927: *[Die Pratermizzi](/source/Die_Pratermizzi)*

- 1929: *[Bright Eyes](/source/Bright_Eyes_(1929_film))* ([co-production](/source/Co-production_(filmmaking)) with [British International Pictures](/source/British_International_Pictures))

- 1930: *[Geld auf der Straße](/source/Geld_auf_der_Stra%C3%9Fe)* (direction by [Georg Jacoby](/source/Georg_Jacoby))

- 1934: *[Maskerade](/source/Maskerade_(film))* (direction by [Willi Forst](/source/Willi_Forst))

- 1934: *[Hohe Schule](/source/Hohe_Schule_(film))* (direction by [Erich Engel](/source/Erich_Engel))

## See also

- [Cinema of Austria](/source/Cinema_of_Austria)

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-auto1_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-auto1_1-1) ["Sascha-Film"](https://www.avid.wiki/Sascha-Film). *Audiovisual Identity Database*. June 26, 2025.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Pavido, Marina (January 22, 2022). ["Production companies during World War I | Cinema Austriaco"](https://cinema-austriaco.org/en/2022/01/22/production-companies-during-world-war-i/).

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-auto_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-auto_3-1) ["Wien - Kino - Film"](https://web.archive.org/web/20070927215910/http://www.wien-vienna.at/freizeit.php?ID=368). *www.wien-vienna.at*. Archived from [the original](http://www.wien-vienna.at/freizeit.php?ID=368) on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-11-26.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Sascha-Film"](https://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.s/s125819.htm). *www.aeiou.at*.

- Herbert Polak, 1948. *30 Jahre Sascha-Film: Festschrift der Sascha-Film Verein- und Vertriebs- Ges. m.b.H. Wien*. Vienna.

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