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CCC Film (German: Central Cinema Compagnie-Film GmbH) is a German film production company founded in 1946 by Artur Brauner. A Polish Jew who survived the Nazi era by fleeing to the Soviet Union, he lost dozens of relatives to the Nazis. His primary interest was making films about the Nazi era, but after his first such film failed at the box office, throwing him into debt, he began producing entertainment films, the commercial success of which then financed his Holocaust-related films, some of which also became successful. In 2009, Brauner donated 21 Holocaust-related films to Yad Vashem. == 1946–1950s == On September 16, 1946, Brauner founded CCC Film with Joseph Einstein, his brother-in-law, a black marketeer in Berlin,〔Hans Schmid, ("Old Atze und der Schatz im Silbersee" ) ''Heise'' Online. (August 23, 2008) Retrieved March 1, 2012 〕 with a capital investment of 21,000 Reichsmarks in the American sector of postwar Germany. They had money, but no license from the American authorities, without which, it was impossible to produce anything.〔 Two months later, Einstein quit the enterprise, leaving Brauner as sole owner. The first CCC-produced film was the 1947 ''Herzkönig'', followed in 1948 by partially self-autobiographical〔("Sein letztes Kapitel" ) ''Der Tagesspiegel'' (April 21, 2008). Retrieved March 1, 2012 〕 ''Morituri'', directed by Eugen York. ''Morituri'' tells the story of a Polish refugee from a Nazi concentration camp. After a few theaters were damaged, the film was boycotted〔Jan Schulz-Ojala, ("Der Tycoon, ein Kumpel" ) ''Der Tagesspiegel'' (August 1, 2003). Retrieved March 1, 2012 〕 by other theaters and became a box office disaster, nearly ruining CCC Film and Brauner, and causing him to begin producing "normal films" in order to pay off his debt, as he told ''Time'' magazine in 2003.〔William Boston, ("Burying the Past" ) ''Time'' (October 1, 2003). Retrieved February 29, 2012〕 Postwar German audiences, struggling with devastated cities, homelessness and hunger, wanted escapist movies in the aftermath of World War II and Brauner filled that desire with a mixture of comedies, westerns, crime stories and the occasional drama. In 1949, Brauner finally received his license from the American authorities〔 and CCC Film produced three successful films and moved to a former Nazi munitions and poison gas factory〔 in Haselhorst, a locality in the Spandau district of Berlin. Brauner later said, "Out of the poison-gas factory I wanted to make a dream factory."〔 In the 1950s, CCC continued producing its proven mix of light-hearted fare and hired directors such as Carl Boese, Helmut Käutner, Robert Adolf Stemmle, Géza von Bolváry, Akos von Ratony, Kurt Neumann, Paul Martin and Erich Engel. Actors and actresses such as Heinz Rühmann, Maria Schell, Gert Fröbe, Klaus Kinski, Curd Jürgens and Romy Schneider were featured, some, like Kinski, making his film debut. It became one of the largest producers of postwar German-language films〔(Description of the Artur Brauner Archive at the Deutsches Film Institute ) European Film Gateway. Retrieved March 1, 2012〕 and helped to establish Berlin as a center of German film and television production. CCC produced ' directed by Franz Cap in 1952. In 1955, the company produced ''The Plot to Assassinate Hitler'', directed by Falk Harnack and co-written by Günther Weisenborn, about the failed July 20, 1944 attempt on Adolf Hitler's life.〔(''Der 20. Juli'' ) Fritz Bauer Institut / Cinematography of the Holocaust. Retrieved March 1, 2012〕〔Both director Falk Harnack and screenwriter Günther Weisenborn were former members of the German Resistance and Weisenborn was imprisoned by the Nazis for several years. In addition, Harnack's brother, sister-in-law and cousins were all executed by the Third Reich.〕 Other more challenging films from the 1950s were ''Die Ratten'' (directed by Robert Siodmak) adapted from a play by Nobel Prize winner Gerhart Hauptmann; ''Studentin Helene Willfüer'' (1956, directed by Rudolf Jugert) adapted from a book by Vicki Baum; and ''Vor Sonnenuntergang'' (1956, directed by Gottfried Reinhardt), also adapted from Hauptmann. CCC produced 19 films in 1958 and began working on large productions.〔 By the end of the 1950s, the company had built five additional film studios on its Haselhorst property, outfitting them with equipment for film and television production. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「CCC Film」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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