Over the past 25 years, Constantin Film has positioned itself in both the German media community and the international film industry as the most successful independent German producer and distributor.

Constantin Film has always succeeded in attracting millions of enthusiastic film fans with major German productions: DER BEWEGTE MANN, WERNER – BEINHART, BALLERMANN 6 or THE SUPERWIFE are just a few of the early theatrical hits. However, Constantin Film made a name for itself on the international film production market too as long as more than 20 years ago with such international in-house productions as THE NEVERENDING STORY or THE NAME OF THE ROSE. They were followed by further global hits such as THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS, the action horror thriller RESIDENT EVIL and its sequel RESIDENT EVIL: APOCALYPSE (which have generated total worldwide sales of more than US-Dollar 700 million so far in the various stages of exploitation), DOWNFALL or THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX.

6 of the top 10 German blockbusters of the last 20 years were produced by Constantin Film; 23 of the top 50 German theatrical films since 1988 were released to theatres by the company. 14 of the 30 most successful German theatrical films of the past 10 years were distributed by Constantin Film. (source: Top 50 List since 1988, SPIO statistics).

Constantin Film AG with its subsidiaries and associated companies has established itself as by far the most successful independent German production and distribution company since it was founded in 1977 by Bernd Eichinger, who is still one of Constantin Film's most important producers, and went public in 1999. We have improved the company's strategic alignment, continued to broaden our business base purposefully and developed into an integrated media group in recent years by the systematic addition of licence trading, in-house home entertainment exploitation and intensified TV service production, with a particular focus on TV entertainment to the two classic areas of operation.

A graduate in Economics (pre-phd), marketing at ESSEC, France, and at Università di Bocconi, Italy, Alexandra Lebret has dedicated her career to the cinema industry.

After working for 7 years on the international development of UGC multiplexes in France, Spain, and Italy, Alexandra cofounded the Parisian cultural weekly Zurban, and cofounded Liberafilms.com, one of the first VOD sites in France (in 2000). In 2002, she was named Secretary-General of the European Producers Club and assumed responsibility for all of the EPC's activities. She has brought renewed momentum to the association by developing international coproduction assistance and exploring new foreign markets. This has resulted in the creation of coproduction forums (42 to date), cooperation forums (outside Europe; 13 to date), conferences open to the public and the brand new European Cinema Network on the Internet.