History 1957

O.W. Fischer acts in the films HERRSCHER OHNE KRONE (director: Harald Braun) and HELDEN (director: Franz Peter Wirth). Kurt Hoffmann films DAS WIRTSHAUS IM SPESSART with Liselotte Pulver in the leading role. Stanley Kubrick makes the inside shots for PATHS OF GLORY. The producer and leading actor is Kirk Douglas. Georg Krause is the cameraman. Bavaria acquires the Schorcht Film-Verleih, renaming it Bavaria Film-Verleih GmbH on June 15, 1958. The new Bavaria produces ROSE BERND as a major international film. Wolfgang Staudte is the director. Alongside Maria Schell, Raf Vallone and Käthe Gold are the actors. Hall II, rebuilt after the fire in 1949, burns out for the second time in the evening hours of August 1. Within the Bavaria Filmkunst AG, a department for culture, documentary, industrial, economic and advertising films is created. On August 1, a casting and second-generation department is created.