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Dominating Neubabelsberg, as no producer is able to dominate Hollywood, are the studios of the mighty UFA (Universum Film Aktiengesellschaft), chief among European cinema companies. Here were filmed such popular and artistic successes as Variety, The Last Laugh, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. And from Neubabelsberg, last week, there journeyed many a cinemactor, many a director, to the Berlin premiere of UFA's latest production, The Homecoming...
Creation of a European film cartel to battle the U. S. invasion, long held a possibility, last week became a reality. Herr Klitsch, director-general of the famed UFA, is the organizer of the cartel, which includes the Institute Nazionale Luce of Rome and, possibly, French producers...
...probably any play of human emotions would be dwarfed against it. Brilliant photography of snow storms and ski races, capable if not superlative acting by Leni Riefenstahl, Louis Trenker and Ernst Peterson, make the picture a valuable and exciting experiment in spectacle and a worthy product of the German UFA, noted for its success in experimenting...
Sunrise. In Germany, F. W. Murnau, Ufa director, made The Last Laugh and Faust. Last week at a showing of his first Hollywood film, people looked to him, as usual, to repeat. In Sunrise he has a meagre story of a clod of a farmer who almost drowned his wife before realizing that he loved her. It is based on the story, "A Trip to Tilsit," by the German Hermann Sudermann, and manages to remain picturesquely soporific for a long evening. Janet Gaynor (seen in Seventh Heaven) contributes a pathetic beauty to the role of the girl-wife. The Student...
...German people, as many know, have gone off on a physical culture twig. This Ufa film shows them at it-dancing in the valleys, chinning on the mountain tops, swinging, stretching, running, generally intensifying and multiplying the daily dozen...