kolowrat-krakowsky worked with many actors, e.g. the then-obscure marlene dietrich and willi forst, who both performed in the 1927 silent film "café elektric" directed by gustav ucicky. he did important pioneering work in all film genres of the time. the high points of his artistic work were the productions of monumental silent movies like "sodom and gomorrah" (1922) or "die sklavenkönigin" (1924), both directed by michael curtiz, on the "laaer berg" in vienna-favoriten. in 1916, he erected austria's first huge studio in vienna-sievering. together with his sascha-film company, he was the owner of several cinemas. he personally loved to attend the münstedt cinema in the prater park, as well as the burgkino and the opernkino. in the vienna prater, west of the rotunde, he erected "old london" in 1920 for film shots, similar to the "venice in vienna" theme park nearby, but smaller.