Film studios Barrandov
Coordinates: 50 ° 1 '47.8 " N , 14 ° 23' 21.3" E
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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 the Barrandov district of Prague in Czechoslovakia by the brothers Miloš Havel (1899–1968) and Václav Havel (1897–1979), the father of the future Czech president of the same name. Václav Havel has been making claims on the film studios since the 1990s.
The first film shot in the studios was Vražda v Ostrovní ulici by Svatopluk Innemann . At the time of the German occupation, Miloš Havel was forced to sell and the film company was converted into the Nazi-oriented Prag-Film AG in 1941 . After the liberation of Czechoslovakia, the studios were nationalized in 1945.
Despite the increased rule of the Communist Unity Party after the Prague Spring , it was possible to produce critical films that were not shown until the Velvet Revolution , including Ucho (The Ear) by Karel Kachyňa from 1970. In 1983, director Miloš Forman shot the Oscar -winning film Amadeus , for which the Czech artists Karel Černý for sets, Theodor Pištěk for costumes and the cameraman Miroslav Ondříček were nominated. A year earlier, Yentl had been realized by and with Barbra Streisand . Also known is Brian De Palma's action movie Mission: Impossible from 1996 with the actors Tom Cruise and Jon Voight , and the film version of Hannibal Lecter -Romans Behind the Mask , in 2006, directed Peter Webber was turned off. The Czech film Kolya , which won an Oscar and a Golden Globe , was also made in the film studios .
In the 1970s and 1980s, the Barrandov film studio produced co-productions between Czechoslovak television and WDR , including the children's series Pan Tau , The Fairy Tale Bride , The Visitors , The Flying Ferdinand and Luzie, The Terror of the Street . With the DEFA studio for feature films , numerous fairy tale films were made during these years, so u. a. also the film adaptation of Cinderella, Three Hazelnuts for Cinderella .
Over 2,500 Czech and foreign films were shot in eleven studios and on an area of 9,248 m².
The current owner of the studios, Moravia Steel, as , who joined the formerly state-owned company after the turbulence in privatization in the 1990s, employs 2,000 people in Barrandov.
In addition to productions by Czech film artists, productions from the USA , Great Britain , France , Germany and Russia are also realized in the studios . In addition, more and more cinema and television commercials are being shot. The foreign productions also made the studio internationally known. The producers particularly appreciate the infrastructure, low production costs, the architecturally rich city of Prague and the natural beauties of Bohemia .
A major fire destroyed part of the film studio on August 27, 2016 and, according to the fire department, the damage amounted to around and 100 million kroner (3.7 million euros).
literature
- Tereza Dvořáková: Prag-Film AG 1941–1945. In the field of tension between protectorate and imperial cinematography. With a contribution: Czech Cinematography in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia by Ivan Klimeš. Edition text and criticism, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-88377-950-8 .
- Petr Szczepanik: Továrna Barrandov. Svět filmařů a politická moc 1945–1970. Národní filmový archive, 2017. ISBN 978-80-7004-177-2 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Janina Lingenberg: Hollywood on the Moldau . In: G history (ed.): G portrait . tape 2/2019 , p. 74-77 .
- ↑ Fire destroys legendary backdrop city , in: NZZ from 27 Aug 2016