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19-798: The business was established in 1910 by Alexander Joseph "Sascha", Count Kolowrat-Krakowsky as the Sascha-Filmfabrik ("Sascha Film Factory") in Pfraumberg in Bohemia , and relocated in 1912 to Vienna . On 10 September 1918, after the merger with the film distributors Philipp & Pressburger, the business became the Sascha-Filmindustrie AG . With epic films such as Alexander Korda 's Prinz und Bettelknabe ("Prince and Beggar") (1920) and Michael Curtiz 's Sodom und Gomorrha (1922) as well as Die Sklavenkönigin ("The Slave Queen") (1924),

38-410: A Prince of Auersperg , in a duel, which had to be atoned for by an exile of several years, according to the customs of that time. This Old Austrian, very Schnitzler -like drama could have provided his son [Sascha] with a good film subject. After Count Leopold Kolowrat had been granted a reprieve by Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria , the family returned to Austria-Hungary . Sascha Kolowrat studied at

57-606: A car racing at the Semmering Pass . After the death of his father in 1910 and the inheritance of his estates in Bohemia , Alexander Kolowrat founded the Sascha-Film factory and a film laboratory at his castle Groß Meierhöfen (today Velké Dvorce ) in Pfraumberg ( Přimda ). In 1912, he moved to Vienna and founded the Sascha-Filmfabrik on Pappenheimgasse 2/Treustraße in Brigittenau . One of his first productions with Sascha-Film

76-633: Is Marie Kolowrat. Semmering Pass Semmering ( German pronunciation: [ˈzɛməʁɪŋ] ) is a mountain pass in the Eastern Northern Limestone Alps connecting Lower Austria and Styria , between which it forms a natural border . Semmering Pass is located west of Sonnwendstein and Hirschenkogel and east of the Pinkenkogel . With the Wechsel Pass , the Semmering is

95-413: Is planned to start in 2014, with excavation completed ready for fitting out from 2021. The tunnel will be designed for passenger trains to run at up to 230 km/h, shortening Vienna - Graz journey times by 40 min to 1 h 50 min, which is expected to attract more customers to rail. The Semmering ski resort , called Zauberberg , which also hosts World Cup events, is located at the pass and extends on to

114-683: The Catholic University of Leuven (present-day Katholieke Universiteit Leuven ) in Belgium where he became a member of the German Catholic fraternity Katholische Academische Verbindung Lovania Leuven . He served in the army and was able to speak many European languages. After he had met Charles Pathé in Paris in 1909, he got into cinematography , besides his interests in motorcycle and car racing, aviation and ballooning. In 1909, he privately filmed

133-652: The 1927 silent film Café Elektric directed by Gustav Ucicky . He did important pioneering work in all film genres of the time. The high points of his artistic work were the productions of monumental silent movies like Sodom and Gomorrah (1922) or Die Sklavenkönigin (1924), both directed by Michael Curtiz , on the Laaer Berg in Vienna- Favoriten . In 1916, he erected Austria's first huge studio in Vienna- Sievering . Together with his Sascha-Film company, he

152-466: The 27.3 km Semmering Base Tunnel . Opening is planned for 2030. The €3·1bn base tunnel between Gloggnitz and Mürzzuschlag is a key part of the 'new Südbahn' project. It will eliminate the current bottleneck on the 41 km Semmering Railway route where steep gradients and numerous curves require freight trains to use two or three locomotives. The tunnel will comprise two 10 m bores between 40 and 70 m apart, linked by cross passages every 500m. Boring

171-532: The Hirschenkogel mountain. It is mainly used by skiers from Vienna, from where it can be reached within one hour, but increasingly also by people from Hungary and Slovakia . The view was printed on the 20 shilling note from 1966 to 1983. The Semmering Pass is featured on a famous commemorative coin: the 25 euro 150 Years of the Semmering Alpine Railway Coin . The reverse of the coin shows

190-647: The Lower Austrian and Styrian sides respectively. Schottwien and Mürzzuschlag are the closest sizeable towns on either side. As the Semmering is a major bottleneck in the Austrian railway network, the Semmering Railway , which is a UNESCO World Heritage site, is planned to be supplemented by a tunnel at the base of the mountains. The project is supported by the Austrian Federal Government and

209-695: The company rose to be one of the most successful European film producers. In 1933 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

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228-519: The daughter of a successful cigarette manufacturer from Saint Petersburg . He had three siblings: Bertha, Friedrich and Heinrich. The reason "Sascha" Kolowrat-Krakowsky was born in the US is described in a letter of March 30, 1984, from his nephew Count Colloredo-Mansfeld to the Austrian film scholar Walter Fritz: Due to a supposed or actual 'defamation' of his bride, my grandfather [Leopold] shot his adversary,

247-519: The development of a lightweight sports car (" Sascha-Wagen ") designed by the Austro-Daimler engineer Ferdinand Porsche , which ran at the 1922 Targa Florio with Alfred Neubauer at the wheel. Kolowrat died of cancer in 1927 in Vienna, aged 41. He would be referenced in the hit Dietrich - von Sternberg film collaboration Dishonored (1931), in which Marlene Dietrich plays a spy whose civilian name

266-486: The governments of Styria and Carinthia , but has been heavily opposed by the government of Lower Austria, which stalled the project by issuing negative environmental impact statements . The project has now been revised according to the advanced state of technology and the layout of the line has been altered in order to minimize effects on ground water . A ground-breaking ceremony was held at Gloggnitz on April 25, 2012 to officially launch preliminary construction works for

285-399: The most important connection between Lower Austria and Styria. It can be crossed by road (via an Autobahn with a tunnel or on the local street on top), or using the Semmering Railway in a short tunnel. A longer Railway tunnel is currently under construction. The village of Semmering is on the pass. The villages of Maria Schutz and Spital am Semmering are slightly below the pass, on

304-567: Was an Austrian film producer of Bohemian - Czech descent from the House of Kolowrat . A pioneer of Austrian cinema , he founded the first major film studio Sascha-Film in Vienna . He was born in what is now Glen Ridge , New Jersey , which was then part of the now-neighboring town of Bloomfield . He was the son of Count Leopold Filip Kolowrat-Krakowsky  [ cs ] (1852–1910) and his wife Nadine Freiin von Huppmann-Valbella (1858–1942),

323-399: 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 war the name Sascha-Film was re-established for a couple of decades, and in the 1950s and 1960s produced light entertainment films. Alexander Kolowrat Count Alexander " Sascha " Joseph von Kolowrat-Krakowsky (29 January 1886 – 4 December 1927)

342-600: Was the documentary Die Gewinnung des Erzes am steirischen Erzberg in Eisenerz ("The Ore Mining in the Styrian Erzberg in Eisenerz "). In 1915, he took over the film branch of the k.u.k. Kriegspressequartier (War Media Quarters) in Vienna and also produced several propaganda movies during World War I . Kolowrat-Krakowsky worked with many actors, e.g. the then-obscure Marlene Dietrich and Willi Forst , who both performed in

361-782: Was the owner of several cinemas. He personally loved to attend the Münstedt Cinema in the Prater park, as well as the Burgkino and the Opernkino. In the Vienna Prater, west of the Rotunde , he erected "Old London" in 1920 for film shots, similar to the " Venice in Vienna " theme park nearby, but smaller. The count owned a large city palace on Wenceslas Square in Prague . An enthusiastic mobilist he financed

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