Rialto Film

Rialto Film is a Danish/German film company originally founded by Constantin Philpsen (1 December 1859-23 August 1925) in 1897.[1] His son Constantin Preben Philipsen (18 January 1910-21 September 2005) took over the company in 1950. Little is known about Rialto's productions prior to 1950.[1]

Rialto became internationally famous with the release of 32 films based on the works of Edgar Wallace and 9 films based on the works of Karl May under director Harald Reinl and, from 1960, co-owner Horst Wendlandt.[2][3] As was the practice of mainstream and successful European cinema, most of the films were international co-productions.[4] Wendtandt was succeeded in 1992 by his son Matthias as general director.[2]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Rialto Film GmbH, Berlin - Die Welt des Kinos...von Edgar Wallace bis Loriot...von Otto Waalkes bis Winnetou
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/horst-wendlandt-642356.html
  3. ↑ Hake, Sabine German National Cinema p. 153 Routledge 2001
  4. ↑ Bergfelder, Tim International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-Production 2006 Berghahn Books

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