Today's Mercator Film GmbH derived from the Mercator Filmverleih was founded in 1957 by Bodo Gaus. Annually, at least 10 new international publications were presented to the audience. Due to the experience of Bodo Gaus, Mercator became a well known name in the movie industry. Highlights like the 70mm movies BOLSCHOI BALLETT, DORNRÖSCHEN and the Hollywood-classic LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING starring Jennifer Jones and William Holden guaranteed early success. Further, many productions that were released demonstrate the great variety of action, horror, science fiction, thriller movies and later erotic films. The company also used to own nine movie theatres which again underlines and completes the manifold activities of Mercator Filmverleih.

In 1970, Dieter Gaus, the son of the company founder, became manager of MERCATOR Filmverleih GmbH.

Productions like "Der Stern von Afrika" and the children's movie "Heidi", besides many other publications had a successful revival in the
movie theatres.

In 1976 a change of law made it possible to publish pornographic productions in the movie theatres. Mercator invented the logo LOVE-IN. Due to great experience in the movie market, Mercator presented only pornographic movies which completely hit the taste of the audience; for example, German productions of ribu-Film. Quickly, LOVE-IN became a known label for quality and success.

Soon after, the video cassette conquered the movie-market and first cooperation contracts with video distributors were signed. Starting in the early 90s, television became more and more popular besides the still growing video market. Especially after the emergence of private TV stations more attention was paid to this sector. The company changed from the traditional movie theatre distribution business to a company that is now more focused and involved in trading movie rights. Due to these changes, the company name was changed from Mercator Filmverleih to Mercator Film GmbH.

Today's main business involves trading with movie rights, especially for erotic and porno-graphic movie productions. The company owns more than 500 titles and increases their stock continously.

MERCATOR Film also represent German and international producers for German broadcast distributions.