Parufamet

Parufamet was the name of the Germany distribution company founded between the American film studios Paramount Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) and Universum Film AG (UFA) in 1925. Parufamet planned to distribute 20 films from each partner per year in Germany.[1]

Paramount and MGM together loaned $4 Million to UFA in December 1925. The German studio UFA financed the production of several expensive silent films, including Metropolis (1927), and had gone bankrupt as a result. In return for the loan, UFA had to reserve 75% of its cinema capacity for American productions.

References
  1. "100 Jahre Ufa Traum ab!" (in German). Berliner Kurier. 17 September 2017.

Works cited
  • Minden, Michael and Holger Bachmann, editors. Fritz Lang's Metropolis cinematic visions of technology and fear. Rochester, N.Y: Camden House, 2000. Print.


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