2011 - 50 Years of Building of the Berlin Wall

Overview of feature, documentary and animated films.
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Catalogue Footage Service

More about the profile and portfolio of the footage service: Touching images of Germany and
the entire world since 1946.
Catalogue (PDF 6 MB)

Children looking
for their parents

The newsreel “The Eye-Witness” held this campaign from 1946 to 1948: short reports about children who list their parents during the confusion of war.
Contact Footage Service

PROGRESS FILM-VERLEIH
Immanuelkirchstr. 14b
10405 Berlin

Sekretariat
Tel. +49 30 24003-451
Fax +49 30 24003-459
www.progress-film.de

Progress History - Overview

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Since PROGRESS Film-Verleih GmbH assumed operations from Sovexport in Berlin in 1950, it has had different names. Interim VEB PROGRESS Film-Vertrieb, it eventually turned into PROGRESS Film-Verleih and kept the name even after the privatization. In 1997, the Federal Agency for Special Tasks Related to Unification (BvS) turned PROGRESS Film-Verleih over to the Tellux holding company that had been the sole share holder of PROGRESS Film-Verleih since January 1st 2001. Since 2011 ICESTORM Entertainment has been the sole share holder of PROGRESS. Managing Director of PROGRESS Film-Verleih are Gerhard Sieber and Klaus Hefele.

PROGRESS Foundation | The 1950s | The 1960s | The 1970s |

Foundation of Progress in 1950

Foundation of PROGRESS Film-Vertrieb GmbH
August 1st 1950

In East Berlin, PROGRESS Film Vertrieb GmbH is founded under German and Russian supervision in the same year in which the founding committee of the Berlinale meets for the first time in West Berlin on the initiative of the American film officer Oscar Martay.
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Office Location 1950

The 1950s

PROGRESS becomes a state owned business

With the national approval commission for feature films formed on December 19th 1952, PROGRESS Film-Vertrieb, as a member of the board, gains an influence on the release of films.
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The 1960s

Summer Film Festival and Westerns

PROGRESS Film-Vertrieb creates the Summer Film Festival modelled on the Czech equivalent. From the 6th to the 12th of July 1962, about one million people attend the open-air events. ... more .

Summer Film Festival

The 1970s

A romantic movie classic and a cartoon success

After several years of work, the feature length cartoon “The Poor Miller’s Boy And The Cat” starts in June 1971: over three million people – young and old – go to see the film adaptation of the Grimm fairytale by Lothar Barke and Helmut Barkowski. ... more .