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DEFA

former state-owned film studio in East Germany
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DEFA

Summary

DEFA is a film studio[1]. DEFA draws 81 Wikipedia views per month (film_studio category, ranking #58 of 208).[2]

Key Facts

  • DEFA received the European Film Award Special Mention[3].
  • DEFA is in the country of German Democratic Republic[4].
  • DEFA's instance of is recorded as film studio[5].
  • DEFA's instance of is recorded as business[6].
  • DEFA's owned by is recorded as German Democratic Republic[7].
  • DEFA's logo image is recorded as DEFA Logo.svg[8].
  • DEFA's headquarters location is recorded as Potsdam[9].
  • DEFA's ISNI is recorded as 0000000121979148[10].
  • DEFA's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 165637402[11].
  • DEFA's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 264457000[12].
  • DEFA's GND ID is recorded as 2007664-2[13].
  • DEFA's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n50065844[14].
  • DEFA's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11999373x[15].
  • DEFA's IdRef ID is recorded as 152054987[16].
  • DEFA's NACSIS-CAT author ID is recorded as DA17566753[17].
  • DEFA's IMDb ID is recorded as co0017271[18].
  • DEFA's child organization or unit is recorded as DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme[19].
  • DEFA's child organization or unit is recorded as DEFA-Studio für Trickfilme[20].
  • DEFA's child organization or unit is recorded as DEFA-Studio für Kurzfilme[21].
  • DEFA's child organization or unit is recorded as DEFA-Studio für populärwissenschaftliche Filme[22].
  • DEFA's Commons category is recorded as DEFA[23].
  • +1946-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of DEFA[24].
  • DEFA was dissolved in +1992-00-00T00:00:00Z[25].
  • DEFA's end time is recorded as +1992-00-00T00:00:00Z[26].
  • DEFA's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01z6xz[27].

Body

Founding

+1946-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of DEFA[24].

Operations

DEFA's headquarters location is recorded as Potsdam[9]. Subsidiaries include DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme[19], a film studio[28]; DEFA-Studio für Trickfilme[20], a production company[29], in German Democratic Republic[30], founded in 1955[31], headquartered in Dresden[32]; DEFA-Studio für Kurzfilme[21]; and DEFA-Studio für populärwissenschaftliche Filme[22], a film studio[33], in German Democratic Republic[34], founded in 1952[35].

Ownership

DEFA's owned by is recorded as German Democratic Republic[7].

Recognition

DEFA received the European Film Award Special Mention[3].

Dissolution

DEFA was dissolved in +1992-00-00T00:00:00Z[25].

Why It Matters

DEFA draws 81 Wikipedia views per month (film_studio category, ranking #58 of 208).[2] DEFA has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[36] DEFA is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[37]

FAQs

What awards did DEFA receive?

Honors received include European Film Award Special Mention[3].

Related Entities

business

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [3] ↑ . europeanfilmacademy.org. Retrieved . europeanfilmacademy.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . BnF authorities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . BnF authorities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . CiNii Research. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [31] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [32] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [33] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [34] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [35] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [36] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [37] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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