Film Distribution

Asked about early Austrian cinema most film historians will mention Von Stufe zu Stufe or Der Müller und sein Kind, movies filmed between 1908 and 1911. Not many people know that before them, in 1907, a Viennese studio called Saturn started mass production of feature films. Unfortunately, because of the Saturn-films’ peculiar topics, up until now certain reluctance combined with a large amount of bashfulness caused a distortion in the historical reconstruction of Austrian filmography. The chronology of the real events was falsified and important sources of the birth of Austrian cinematography were kept as a secret. Filmarchiv Austria decided to set the record straight and fill the gap by publishing a book and a videocassette. The book addresses movie-specialists, while the cassette will be suitable for a general audience interested in the history of Austrian movie production.