United Futbol Academy
In 1923 the studio acquired one of the world’s largest manufacturing services, at Neubabelsberg, because of its merger with the movie firm Decla Bioscop. This move, nevertheless, coincided with the rising recognition in Germany of Hollywood movies, and UFA’s resulting financial crises compelled the studio to provide principally inexpensive documentary films for the subsequent few years. Distribution deals with the American studios Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ultimately proved disastrous, however UFA rallied lengthy sufficient to supply such classics as F.W. Murnau’s Der letzte Mann (1924; The Last Laugh),... [...]