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Nero-Film AG was a German film production company founded in 1925 and based in Berlin during the Weimar era. The company's name was derived from the names of its two founders: the letters "NE" stood for the name of the entrepreneur Heinrich Nebenzahl, and the letters "RO" for the initials of director Richard Oswald. Originally founded as ''Nero-Film GmbH'', a limited liability company, it was converted into an ''Aktiengesellschaft'', ''Nero-Film AG'', in 1927. Under the influence of Nebenzahl's son Seymour Nebenzahl, Nero-Film was one of the most artistically ambitious production companies in Germany, and with directors like G.W. Pabst and Fritz Lang it produced a number of major films of the Weimar era, such as ''Pandora's Box'', ''Westfront 1918'', ''The Threepenny Opera'', ''M'', ''Kameradschaft'', ''L'Atlantide'' and ''The Testament of Dr. Mabuse''. In the film industry, the bourgeois-democratic Nero-Film and the proletarian Prometheus Film were the last bulwark against the rise of artistic Nazism. After the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, Seymour Nebenzahl was forced to emigrate, and Nero-Film AG was forced to discontinue their work. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse became the first film censored by the Nazi government; Nebenzal and Director Frtiz Lang appeared before Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels, who ordered ''Mabuse'' destroyed and banned it from the Reich. Nebenzal, using his American passport, fled that evening to Switzerland and then to France, where he collaborated with the Director Anatole Litvak to produce Mayerling, a huge success for the star, Charles Boyer. In Los Angeles, Nebenzahl led various later film production companies under the famous name of Nero-Film. ==Selected filmography== * ''The Prisoners of Shanghai'' (1927) * ''Das letzte Fort'' (1928) * ''Tragedy at the Royal Circus'' (1928) * Die Büchse der Pandora (1929) * People on Sunday (1930) * Westfront 1918 (1930) * Skandal um Eva (1930) * Die 3-Groschen-Oper (1931) * Ariane (1931) * M (1931) * Kameradschaft (1931) * ''L'Atlantide'' (1932) three versions: German, French, and English * ''Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse'' (1933) * ''The Weaker Sex'' (1933) * ''The Crisis is Over'' (1934) * ''Parisian Life'' (1936) * ''Mayerling'' (1936) * ''Werther'' (1938) * ''Les ôtages'' (1939) * ''We Who Are Young'' (1940) * ''Hitler's Madman'' (1943) * ''Summer Storm'' (1944) * ''Whistle Stop'' (1945) * ''The Chase'' (1946) * ''Siren of Atlantis'' (1948) * ''M'' (1951) * ''Girl from Hong Kong'' (1961) Seymour Nebenzal's son Harold Nebenzal continued the three-generation tradition of Nero-Film through the production of such motion picture masterpieces as Cabaret and Gabriela. 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「Nero-Film」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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