Barrandov Studios
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The Barrandov film studios are one of the largest and oldest film studios in Europe.
History
The studios were founded in the 1930s in Prague's Barrandov in Czechoslovakia by the brothers Miloš Havel ( 1899-1968 ) and Václav Havel ( 1897-1979 ), the father of the late Czech president same name. Václav Havel stood since the 1990s claims to the film studios.
In eleven studios and covering an area of 9248 m² over 2,500 Czech and foreign films were shot.
The current owner of the studio, Moravia Steel, as who came to the formerly state-owned enterprises after privatization the turbulence of the 1990s, employs 2,000 people in Barrandov.
In addition to productions Czech film artists and productions from the U.S., UK, France, Germany or Russia can be realized in the studios. In addition, cinema and TV spots are shot strengthened. The foreign productions made the Studio also known internationally. The producers appreciate the infrastructure, low production costs, the architecturally rich city of Prague and the natural beauty of Bohemia.
However, stricter rule of the Socialist Unity Party after the Prague Spring, it was possible to produce critical films that were not listed until the Velvet Revolution, including Ucho ( The Ear ) by Karel Kachyňa from the year 1970. 1983 turned director Milos Forman Academy Award - winning film Amadeus, for which the Czech artist Karel Černý for Szenenbauten, for costumes Theodor Pištěk and cameraman Miroslav Ondříček were nominated. A year earlier, Yentl was realized by and starring Barbra Streisand. Also known is Brian De Palma's action film Mission: Impossible from 1996 with the actors Tom Cruise and Jon Voight, as well as the film adaptation of Hannibal Lecter novel, Behind the Mask, which was filmed in 2006 under the direction of Peter Webber. Was also realized in the film studios of Czech film Kolya, which won an Oscar and a Golden Globe.
In the 1970s and 1980s originated in the Barrandov Film Studios co-production of the Czechoslovak television with WDR, including the children's series Pan Tau, The Fairy Tale Bride, The Visitors, The Flying Ferdinand and Lucy, the terror of the road. With the DEFA Studio for Feature Films emerged in these years, many fairy tale adaptations, so among other things, the Cinderella film Three Wishes for Cinderella.