Parufamet

Parufamet was the name of the distribution company founded between the American film studios Paramount Pictures and Metro Goldwyn Mayer who together loaned $4 Million (US) to Universum Film AG (Ufa) in December 1925. The German studio Ufa financed the production of several expensive silent films including Metropolis (1927), and had gone bankrupt as a result. In return for the loan, Ufa had to reserve 75% of its cinema capacity for American productions and was obliged to distribute 20 films from each partner per year in Germany.

Works cited

Minden, Michael and Holger Bachmann, editors. Fritz Lang's Metropolis cinematic visions of technology and fear. Rochester, N.Y: Camden House, 2000. Print.

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