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Decla Film
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<p>Decla-Film (later Decla-Bioscop after 1920) was a German <a href="/facts/Film_production/GL8DJm3W">film production</a> and <a href="/facts/Film_distribution/mSCKYlfM">distribution</a> company of the <a href="/facts/Silent_era/32MP8dLb">silent era</a>, founded by <a href="/facts/Erich_Pommer/wTDyj2yo">Erich Pommer</a> and Fritz Holz in February 1915. </p><p>It was formed out of the assets of the German branch of the French film production company <a href="/facts/Eclair_(company)/xmvBWHdc">Éclair</a>, Deutsche Éclair, which had been confiscated by the German government at the start of <a href="/facts/World_War_One/vITTUanQ">World War One</a>. Pommer had previously been director of the Austrian branch of Éclair in Vienna. The firm merged with <a href="/facts/Jules_Greenbaum/zRMwR9Ve">Deutsche Bioskop AG</a> in Spring 1920, and with <a href="/facts/Universum_Film_AG/13WkCUnY">Ufa</a> in October 1921. </p><p>Decla and Decla-Bioscop produced some of the most well-known films of the Weimar era, including <i><a href="/facts/Homunculus_(film)/sfenc5lb">Homunculus</a></i>, <i><a href="/facts/Die_Pest_in_Florenz/eTVYGyjb">Die Pest in Florenz</a></i>, <i><a href="/facts/The_Spiders_(film)/6akvtRhX">The Spiders</a></i>, <i><a href="/facts/The_Cabinet_of_Dr._Caligari/8LUW4cP7">The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari</a></i>, <i><a href="/facts/Destiny_(1921_film)/El9z5vuM">Destiny</a></i>, <i><a href="/facts/Phantom_(1922_film)/lk1WLp8h">Phantom</a></i> and <i><a href="/facts/Die_Nibelungen/Hatp0PMQ">Die Nibelungen</a></i>. </p>