caption birth_place birth_date birthname image article_title name occupation
artur brandt . brauner -lrb- left -rrb- shaking hands with willy Łódź , poland 1 august 1918 abraham brauner bundesarchiv empfängt schauspieler.jpg b 145 bild-f034157-0024 , bonn , bundeskanzler brandt artur brauner
 artur brauner film producer
artur brauner

artur `` atze '' brauner -lrb- born abraham brauner ; 1 august 1918 -rrb- is a german film producer and entrepreneur of polish origin .
he was born to a jewish family in Łódź , poland .
with his parents and four siblings , he fled to the soviet union and survived the holocaust .
following the war , he and his brother , wolf brauner emigrated to berlin ; his parents and three of his siblings emigrated to israel .
twelve of his relatives were killed at babi yar , just a portion of the 49 who perished at the hands of the nazis .
as a young man he saw fritz lang 's film `` the testament of dr. mabuse '' that affected him greatly , making him interested in film .
in september 1946 he founded the central cinema company or ccc films in the american sector of berlin .
he prouduced `` sag ' die wahrheit '' , one of the first films produced in germany after the war , followed by `` morituri '' , which was a commercial failure and threw him into debt .
brauner realised that to produce critically successful films he had to make up their losses by producing critically derided films that were appreciated by the public .
he lured back many germans who had experience in hollywood such as robert siodmak and later fritz lang who started a revival of dr. mabuse .
in 2009 , yad vashem received a donation of 21 of brauner 's productions having to do with the holocaust , including `` die weiße rose '' , `` the plot to assassinate hitler '' -lrb- `` der 20 .
juli '' -rrb- and `` man and beast '' -lrb- `` mensch und bestie '' -rrb- .
in 2010 , yad vashem opened a media center in brauner 's name .
brauner called it the `` crowning achievement of my film career '' .
