verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . november 2009 learn how and when to remove this template message entrance to the babelsberg studios the babelsberg film studio german filmstudio babelsberg fwb bg1 located in potsdam babelsberg outside berlin germany is the oldest large scale film studio in the world producing films since 1912 . today it covers an area of about 25 000 square metres 270 000 sq ft and thus is europe s largest film studio . 1 hundreds of films including fritz lang s metropolis and josef von sternberg s the blue angel were filmed there . more recent productions include v for vendetta on flux the bourne ultimatum valkyrie inglourious basterds cloud atlas the grand budapest hotel and the hunger games . today studio babelsberg remains operational mainly for feature film productions . furthermore it acts as co producer on international high budget productions . contents 1 history 2 notable films shot at babelsberg studios 3 see also 4 references 5 bibliography 6 external links history edit movie set berlin at filmpark babelsberg adjacent to the studios babelsberg studios in 1952 . in 1911 the film production company deutsche bioscope built its first glasshouse film studio early studios designed to take advantage of natural light in neubabelsberg . the company had been originally formed by jules greenbaum in 1899 and incorporated in 1902 . 2 3 as his business increased greenbaum made a deal with the chemist carl moritz schleussner of the photochemicals firm schleussner ag in frankfurt main . carl schleussner had been involved since 1896 in producing negative film stock for r ntgen photography soon after its discovery . 4 in february 1908 carl schleussner bought a majority share in deutsche bioscop as a film manufacturing duplicating and sales operation for a 2 3 share of 140 000 marks with 1 3 provided by jules greenbaum & his brother max . ownership of deutsche bioscop was transferred to schleussner ag and registered on 27 february 1908 schleussner bought out the greenbaums remaining share of deutsche bioscop in 1909 . 5 however the first filming in babelsberg began as early as february 1912 for the dance of the dead by danish director urban gad . in 1920 the deutsche bioscop gesellschaft merged with erich pommer s decla film gmbh into decla bioscop . in 1921 decla bioscop merged with universum film ag ufa which had been founded in 1917 . this company built the large studio which is now known as the marlene dietrich halle in 1926 for the major film production of metropolis by fritz lang . the first german sound stage in babelsberg the tonkreuz was built during 1929 . melodie des herzens melody of the heart with willy fritsch was the first german full sound film . this was followed in 1930 by the premiere of the blue angel by josef von sternberg with marlene dietrich and emil jannings in the main roles . from 1933 to 1945 around 1 000 feature films were made in the studios and on the studio lot . under the direction of hitler s propaganda chief joseph goebbels the studio churned out hundreds of films including leni riefenstahl s openly propagandistic triumph of the will . the virulently anti semitic propaganda film jud s ss the jew s ss shot in 1940 was also made at babelsberg . 6 on may 17 1946 the defa deutsche film ag was established . it produced over 800 feature films including 150 children s films . in addition over 600 films were made for television from 1959 to 1990 . the defa period was honored by a retrospective at the museum of modern art moma in new york city in 2005 . after the fall of the berlin wall the treuhand took over the responsibility for the privatisation of the former defa . in august 1992 the treuhandanstalt sold the former defa film studios in babelsberg to the french group compagnie g n rale des eaux later absorbed into vivendi universal . over the following 12 years the company invested around 500 million updating the studio s infrastructure . in july 2004 vivendi sold studio babelsberg to the investment company fbb filmbetriebe berlin brandenburg gmbh which has carl woebcken and christoph fisser as shareholders . in spring of 2005 the restructured studio presented an initial public offering and began trading on the free market . 2007 was the most profitable year since the studio s privatization in 1992 12 feature films were shot at studio babelsberg among them valkyrie with tom cruise the international with clive owen and the reader with kate winslet . in 2008 studio babelsberg and hollywood producer joel silver formed a strategic alliance to produce feature films from the dark castle production slate at the world s oldest film studio . recent co productions of studio babelsberg include quentin tarantino s inglourious basterds released 2009 roman polanski s the ghost writer 2010 brian de palma s passion 2012 and george clooney s the monuments men 2014 . notable films shot at babelsberg studios edit see also category babelsberg studio films the 1927 film metropolis was made at babelsberg . photo shows the statue of the film figure maria in the filmpark babelsberg . der m de tod 1921 dr. mabuse der spieler 1922 die nibelungen 1924 metropolis 1927 spione 1928 frau im mond 1929 der blaue engel 1930 la habanera 1937 jud s 1940 das beil von wandsbek 1951 die geschichte vom kleinen muck 1953 das singende klingende b umchen 1957 sonnensucher 1958 sterne 1959 karbid und sauerampfer 1963 nackt unter w lfen 1963 der geteilte himmel 1964 die abenteuer des werner holt 1965 spur der steine 1966 ich war neunzehn 1968 goya oder der arge weg der erkenntnis 1971 die legende von paul und paula 1973 jakob der l gner 1974 sieben sommersprossen de 1978 solo sunny 1980 der aufenthalt 1983 the passion of darkly noon 1995 victory 1996 sonnenallee 1999 gangster no. 1 2000 the pianist 2002 extreme ops 2002 around the world in 80 days 2004 kingdom of heaven 2004 the bourne supremacy 2004 beyond the sea 2004 the constant gardener 2005 flightplan 2005 on flux 2005 zwartboek 2006 v for vendetta 2006 the bourne ultimatum 2007 die f lscher 2007 valkyrie 2008 speed racer 2008 the reader 2008 flammen & citronen 2008 the international 2008 inglourious basterds 2009 ninja assassin 2009 pandorum 2009 mr. nobody 2009 the ghost writer 2010 unknown 2011 hanna 2011 the three musketeers 2011 poulet aux prunes 2011 anonymous 2011 the apparition 2012 passion 2012 cloud atlas 2012 hansel & gretel witch hunters 2013 g.i. joe retaliation 2013 the book thief 2013 la belle et la b te 2014 the grand budapest hotel 2014 the monuments men 2014 the hunger games mockingjay part 1 2014 the voices 2015 was hei t hier ende 2015 unfinished business 2015 m nd & h ns da 2015 bridge of spies 2015 the hunger games mockingjay part 2 2015 point break 2015 eddie the eagle 2016 captain america civil war 2016 the lake 2016 a cure for wellness 2017 see also edit berlin portal film portal references edit studio babelsberg mit der erschlie ung des direkt in der nachbarschaft befindlichen filmgel ndes mit den studios neue film 1 und neue film 2 konnte studio babelsberg seine studiokapazit ten verdoppeln und verf gt so ber europas gr ten zusammenh ngenden studiokomplex . retrieved 3 december 2013 german bock & bergfelder 2009 p. 166 167 . hampicke evelyn 2015 . jules greenbaum . cinegraph lexikon zum deutschsprachigen film in german . cinegraph.de . retrieved 31 march 2015 . eisenbach ulrich 2007 . schleussner in neue deutsche biographie 23 pp. 68 69 online edition in german . hampicke 1996 . spiegel 09 06 07 bibliography edit bock hans michael ; bergfelder tim eds . 2009 . the concise cinegraph encyclopedia of german cinema . berghahn books . isbn 9780857455659 . hampicke evelyn 1996 . more than ten lines jules greenbaum . a contribution against forgetting in film history . . positionen deutscher filmgeschichte positions of german film history discourse film 8 in german . schaudig michael ed . . munich discourse filmverlag schaudig & single . pp. 23 36 . isbn 978 392637207 9 . hans j rgen tast ed . anton weber 1904 1979 filmarchitekt bei der ufa schellerten 2005 isbn 3 88842 030 x ; external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to babelsberg studios . official website berlin studio plays host to hollywood coordinates 52 23 13 n 13 07 10 e 52.38694 n 13.11944 e 52.38694 ; 13.11944 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title babelsberg studio & oldid 743714670 categories buildings and structures in potsdamgerman film studios1912 establishments in germanyhidden categories cs1 german language sources de articles needing additional references from november 2009all articles needing additional referencesarticles containing german language textcommons category with local link same as on wikidatacoordinates not on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants 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