Terra-Filmkunst

Terra Film is a Berlin-based film production company. Founded in 1920, it became one of Germany's largest film production companies in the 1930s.

The company was founded at end of 1919, initially as a limited liability company and converted into a corporation in October 1920. On 19 July 1922, it acquired Terra studios, and the reproduction facilities of Eiko Film GmbH in Berlin-Marienfelde.

In 1930, the Swiss Scotoni family, headed by Eugen Scotoni, acquired Terra for 1.2 million Reichsmarks. Many of the 40 films from the era of Ralph Scotoni (who joined the Nazi party in 1933) were influenced by Nazi ideas, transfer was also on Swiss materials and locations (William Tell, 1934; The Knight of Pontresina, 1934; Hermione and the Seven Law, 1935). However, since the films lost money, the family sold its stake in Terra Scotoni film in 1935.

In the wake of the nationalization of the film industry in July 1937, Terra-Film Art Ltd. changed its name and was now majority owned by the state-owned Cautio Treuhand GmbH. Terra now produced in the Tempelhof studios of UFA Film Art GmbH. In 1942, Terra was absorbed into Ufa-Film GmbH (UFI) and retained only formal independence.

From the early 1960s to the 1980s, joined the West Berlin Terra-Film GmbH art again as producer and co-producer of more than 100 films.

Terra's first film was The Marriage of Figaro (1920, directed by Max Mack. It was followed by films such as Christian Wahnschaffe ( Urban Gad, 1920-21), Bigamy ( Jaap Speyer, 1927) and Queen Luise ( Karl Grune, 1927/28).

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