The Wandsbek Studios are film production and television studios located in Wandsbek , a district of the German city of Hamburg .
4-657: The complex was established in 1948 when Real Film , set up the previous year, acquired a site in Wandsbek for construction of a studio. Real Film was one of the first German companies to receive a production licence in the wake of the Second World War . The studios were located in the British Zone of Occupation which in 1949 became part of West Germany . Historically the film industry had been centered in Berlin , but as much of this
8-624: A film studio is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Real Film Real Film or Real-Film was a West German film production company. It was established in 1947 in Hamburg , then part of the British Zone of Occupation . Its founders were Walter Koppel and the Hungarian Gyula Trebitsch . The company released some rubble films but gradually switched to concentrate on comedies and musicals. In 1948 an estate in Wandsbek
12-579: The company struggled during the 1960s and was overtaken by outfits such as Constantin Film . In 1961, it was renamed Studio Hamburg and branched increasingly into television production . It was involved in the Pinewood Studio Berlin partnership. A wholly owned subsidiary is Letterbox Filmproduktion GmbH, under whose name television series such as Notruf Hafenkante, Großstadtrevier, Die Pfefferkörner and Die Kanzlei are produced. This article about
16-535: Was now under Communist East German control, West German production shifted to Hamburg and the Bavaria Studios in Munich . While Wandsbek was primarily the base of Real Film, it also rented out space to other companies for their productions, such as the 1952 hit Toxi (1952). Real Film was a leading film producer of popular cinema during the 1950s producing films such as The Captain from Köpenick (1956). However,
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