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Together with the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation, PHAROS - The Post Group has digitally restored the Veit Harlan film DIE GOLDENE STADT.<br />The Agfacolor film is the second German full-length color feature film, which premiered in Berlin in November 1942 and was one of the most successful films of its time with 31 million moviegoers - awarded the International Film Chamber Prize at the Venice Film Festival.<br />For the first time, the contemporary document is now being shown to the public with both ends intact. According to Veit Harlan, the film was to end on a positive note and the corresponding ending had already been shot. Joseph Goebbels, however, insisted on a tragic ending.<br />The footage of the unpublished ending was found, but the sound negative is still considered lost. The dialog was reconstructed with the help of lip reader Lars Grombelka and subtitled.<br />The restoration was based on four different image sources: some of the material was in an extremely poor, very fragile and color-degraded condition. The retouching was carried out by Markus Kappelmeier, the lighting was determined by Andi Lautil and the sound was restored by Thomas Orthofer.
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