22/5 -
Fritz Lang begins filming Metropolis in the UFA studios from a script written by the director and his wife Thea von Harbou. The film costs $1.5 million to produce, takes 310 days and 60 nights to shoot and employs 36,000 extras.
24/9 -
The Ufa-Palast am Zoo reopens its doors.
19/12 -
UFA is rescued from financial collapse by signing a reciprocal agreement (The Parufamet Treaty) with Paramount and MGM for the importation of films between Germany and the USA.
17/12 -
Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern (The Little Match-girl) is produced by UFA in collaboration with the Swiss firm Tri-Ergon AG. The film contains a dialogue and sound-on-film track, but is unsuccessful due to technical shortcomings.
– American films exceed the share of German films for the first time with a market share of 42%.