UFA - Tradition and Innovation

UFA is one of Germany's oldest and most distinguished entertainment brands, with an artistic heritage of films like "Metropolis", "Der blaue Engel" and the German Expressionism films. Today, UFA is a highly competent group of production companies, having continuously extended its market leadership among Germany's film and television producers over the last few years.

Under the UFA umbrella, seven subsidiaries operate independently in the market in a system of linked performances. Its wide-ranging product portfolio offers a unique diversity of complementary programmes: TV movies, mini-series, series and TV events, Magazines, Soaps and Telenovelas, Quiz- and Gameshows, Comedy-, Talent- and Musicshows and last not least feature films.

UFA's programmes thrill and inspire millions of viewers every day. UFA evolved from programme designer and TV producer into a content specialist, offering a range of solutions for multimedia technologies - and for an extremely varied set of partners.

UFA is one of the first film and television producers in Germany to become intensively involved in the development and production of content for new digital media such as mobile TV, digital thematic channels, IPTV, direct-to-DVD and interactive TV. Reference projects include the world's first original DVB-H programme, "Das UFA Quiz", the mobile multiplayer trading card game "Master of Maya" and "Kill your Darling", the first full-video series developed and produced in Germany for mobile phones.

UFA is the umbrella organization for all German production activities of FremantleMedia. It operates the worldwide production business for the RTL Group which belongs to Bertelsmann.