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Decla-Bioscop company was founded by Erich Pommer in 1916 as Decla-Film-Gesellschaft Holz & Co. The co-founder of the company is the Berlin film distributor, Fritz Holz, as referenced in the second part of the name. Decla kept this name even after Holz left the company. Since the company was affiliated with Éclair of France, Decla is an abbreviation for Deutsche Eclair.

In 1923, Decla-Bioscop became a part of the UFA – Universum-Film AG. Under Erich Pommer, Decla-Bioscop gathered a parade of the most distinguished German film directors, cinematographers, architects and actors, producing many of the central works of German cinema, including The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920) and films by F.W. Murnau and Fritz Lang.

The company’s films were shot at its famous studios in Babelsberg outside Berlin. Other Danish filmmakers worked there as well, among them Benjamin Christensen (Seine Frau, die Unbekannte, 1923).