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BERLIN (AP) – Artur Brauner, a Holocaust survivor born in Poland, became one of the largest producers of German films after the Second World War, went out Sunday at the same time. 100 years old.
Brauner's family said he had died in Berlin, reported the German press agency dpa.
The Minister of Culture, Monika Gruetters, said that Germany had lost one of the most important film producers of the post-war period, adding that it was "a big gift for our country "that Brauner had chosen to make cinema in Germany and support its democratic reconstruction. She also paid tribute to her decades-long efforts to ensure that the victims of the Holocaust are not forgotten.
Brauner has produced hundreds of movies. They repeatedly included 1960s "Dr. Mabuse" crime movies and other hits such as "Girls in Uniform" with Romy Schneider.
Several of the films he produced were about the Holocaust, including Europa Europa, Agnieszka Holland's Golden Globe winner, about a boy from Nazi Germany joining Hitler's youth. to try to conceal his Jewish identity.
His "Babi Yar" in 2003 focused on the Nazi mbadacre of 1941 in Ukraine, during which several relatives of Brauner had been killed. Brauner was disappointed by the lack of box office success for the film in Germany, saying the test "that the German cinema audience has become politically more mature" has had "clearly negative" results.
He also participated in the production of Benito Mussolini's film "The Garden of Finzi-Continis" in Italy, which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1972.
Brauner described "Morituri", a 1948 film about a group of detainees helped by a Polish doctor to escape towards the end of the war as his most important film. He received a negative reception at the time, but Brauner called it "virtually the first film dealing with the issue of Nazi victims".
Brauner thought his lighter post-war films fit the public's tastes.
"People wanted to be entertained after the terrible war, and I had a presentiment for the needs of the public," he told the Funke press group in 2018.
His persistence helped. He remembered driving 36 times in Berlin-Munich, in the south of Communist Germany, in Berlin-Germany Communist to persuade actress Maria Schell to play the role of a pregnant woman. penniless in the 1955 drama "The Rats", one of his favorite movies.
Brauner said that there was no one in the movie industry with whom he would never work again, although he would like to have another chance to work with him, especially the late director Fritz Lang, "he was sticking to my budget goals."
Brauner has been worried in recent years about the rise of right-wing populism in Europe.
"I can only recommend that young people do not fall into the clutches of populists around the world and fight with all their might against nationalism, racism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia – now and not when it is already too late, "he dpa press agency in 2018.
Son of a Jewish lumber merchant, he was born on August 1, 1918 under the name of Abraham Brauner in the Polish city of Lodz. Brauner discovers his love of cinema very early and often goes directly from school to a screening. After completing his studies in 1936, he joined an expedition of young documentary filmmakers in the Middle East, then studied at Lodz until the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany in 1939.
Brauner, his parents and his four siblings fled to the east and survived the war.
His parents then emigrated to Israel. Brauner himself planned to emigrate to the United States, but returned briefly to Lodz, then to Berlin with his brother Wolf.
In West Berlin, Brauner co-founded Central Cinema Co., which has become one of the largest production companies in Europe and has gradually expanded its activities to television.
Even though he was 100, he was discussing scripts almost daily with his daughter Alice. "As soon as I'm gone, I can stop working," he said.
Maria, Brauner's wife, with whom he married in 1947, pbaded away in 2017. He is survived by their four children, Fela, Alice, Sammy and Henry.
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