ORWO

ORWO is a brand of black and white film products, made in Germany.

ORWO was established in East Germany in 1964 as a brand for photographic film and magnetic tape, mainly produced at the former ORWO Filmfabrik Wolfen. The Wolfen factory was founded by AGFA in 1910 and developed the first modern colour film, which incorporated colour couplers, Agfacolor Neu, in 1936.

The partition of Germany after the Second World War saw AGFA divided, into Agfa AG, Leverkusen in West Germany, and VEB Film und Chemiefaserwerk Agfa Wolfen in East Germany, which later adopted the brand ORWO. The company was privatised in 1990 as ORWO AG, but film production ceased at Wolfen in 1994 following the liquidation of the company, with its constituent parts closed or sold off.