UFA is the Universum Film
AG, a
German film production
company. Founded 1917 in
Potsdam-
Babelsberg it produced such classic movies like
Metropolis or
Der Blaue Engel. In
1937 the UFA was nationalized and subordinated to the
Reichspropagandaministerium of
Joseph Goebbels. After
World War II the UFA was separated. In the
SBZ (
Soviet Occupied Zone) the
DEFA was founded and in the
BRD in
1953 the
Bavaria Filmkunst GmbH,
UFA Theater AG and the
Universum Film AG were founded.
In
1964 the
Universum Film AG was
aquired by
Bertelsmann and sold again in the
Seventies.
1984 Bertelsmann founded the
UFA Film- und Fernseh GmbH where it merged all its film and
TV companies. The
UFA Film- und Fernseh GmbH then was merged in
1997 with the
CLT (owner of
RTL) into
CLT-UFA.