values: average film production costs quintupled from 250,000 ℛℳ in 1933 () to 1,380,000 ℛℳ in 1942 (). Ticket sales within the Reich quadrupled from 250 million in 1933 to more than a billion in 1942. Box-office sales more than doubled from 441 million ℛℳ in 1938 (equivalent to billion €) to over 1 billion ℛℳ in 1942 (equivalent to billion €). In 1937, the Cautio acquired the largest German production company, Universum Film AG, and in 1942 merged this company with the remaining companies – Terra Film, Tobis, Bavaria Film, Wien-Film and Berlin-Film – into the so-called Ufi-Group. The entire German film industry had been practically nationalized but remained nominally a private industry. Goebbels founded the Filmkreditbank GmbH in order to fund the industry but the funds came from private investors. The industry was forced to remain profitable to produce films that met the expectations of the audience. Ufi was a vertically integrated monopoly, covering the entire European film market under German hegemony, with foreign imports cut off. The company's profits surged, reaching 155 million ℛℳ in 1942 (equivalent to million €) and 175 million ℛℳ in 1943 (equivalent to million €). Nazi regime's national film award winners Officially honored films considered by the Nazis to be "artistically valuable" (German: künstlerisch wertvoll) by the state (* = predicate "special political value" – introduced in 1934, + = predicate "special traditional value" (German: volkstümlich wertvoll), ** = predicate "film of the nation" introduced in 1941): {| class="wikitable" style="font-size:100%" |- style="text-align:center;" ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Year ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Title |- | 1933 | S.A.-Mann Brand (dir. Franz Seitz, Sr.) Hitlerjunge Quex i.e., Hitler Youth Quex (dir. Hans Steinhoff) Reifende Jugend i.e., Maturing Youth (dir. Carl Froelich) Flüchtlinge i.e., Refugees (dir. Gustav Ucicky) |- | 1934 | Ich für dich, du für mich i.e., I for you, you for me (dir. Carl Froelich) Der Schimmelreiter i.e., The Rider on the White Horse (dir. Curt Oertel, Hans Deppe), based on the novella by Theodor Storm Der verlorene Sohn i.e., The Prodigal Son (dir. Luis Trenker) Der Herr der Welt i.e., Master of the World (dir. Harry Piel) *Stoßtrupp 1917 i.e., Shock Troop 1917 (dir. Hans Zöberlein, Ludwig Schmid-Wildy) Krach um Jolanthe i.e., Trouble with Jolanthe (dir. Carl Froelich), based on a book by August Hinrichs |- | 1935 | *Hermine und die sieben Aufrechten i.e., Hermine and the Seven Upright Men (dir. Frank