FILM
Babelsberg: World's oldest large-scale film studio

Many of cinema's greatest names worked in the legendary Babelsberg film studio, located just outside Berlin. In early 2022, it was acquired by a US investment firm.



The birth of a film studio

While independent US producers were already establishing their studios in Hollywood, German filmmakers were shooting in the center of Berlin. Because the hot spotlights kept triggering fire alarms, they were asked to find a more remote location. Film pioneer Guido Seeber picked new premises in Potsdam-Babelsberg, at the southwest outskirts of Berlin, where a first studio was built in 1911.

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