Treasures of European film culture

The Treasures of European Film Culture list from the European Film Academy (EFA) includes places that have a special symbolic meaning for European film history . With the initiative presented in 2015, EFA wants to help preserve these places for future generations.

The idea of creating such a list came from Naum Kleiman and Erika and Ulrich Gregor . The treasures of European film culture in 2015 were presented with the first four entries.

	designation	Country Place	Description and notes
2015	Bergman Center	Sweden / Fårö	The Bergman Center is a museum and meeting point for those interested in the work of director Ingmar Bergman ( The Seventh Seal , Wild Strawberries , Scenes from a Marriage, etc.). It is located on the island of Fårö, where he lived for 41 years, made seven films and died in 2007. Bergman Week takes place every year in June with film screenings, performances and readings.
2015	The Eisenstein Center of the Pushkin Museum	Russia / Moscow	The Eisenstein Center does not yet exist. The EFA supports the museum's plan to make Sergei Eisenstein's estate , which has been kept for decades in the former apartment of his wife Pera Atasheva and reserved for only a few guests, to the public. The Center is also supposed to prepare the publication of its theoretical works on film , to show retrospectives and to help researchers, editors, translators, etc. with their work.
2015	Lumière Institute	France / Lyon	In the Villa Lumière , the house of the Lumière brothers , the film pioneers used as a museum and archive, the institute dedicates itself to the work of the patron saint at the end of the 19th century on the one hand, and to film and cinema history in general on the other. It also operates the arthouse cinema Hangar du Premier-Film Cinéma in a new building not far from the villa .
2015	Il mondo di Tonino Guerra (The world of Tonino Guerra)	Italy / Pennabilli	Set up in the basement of the 14th century church of Santa Maria della Misericordia, Il mondo di Tonino Guerra is the name given to the place by the screenwriter ( Blow Up , Zabriskie Point , Amarcord, etc.), poet and visual artist himself , both a museum and archive of his work, as well as a library and meeting place for artists and cultural workers.
2015	Potemkin Stairs	Ukraine / Odessa	The open staircase, completed in 1841 and connecting the port of Odessa with the city center, became one of the most famous locations in film history thanks to Eisenstein's silent film Battleship Potemkin (1925). It was included in the list during the 6th Odessa International Film Festival in July 2015.
2016	Ferris wheel	Austria / Vienna	Goed down in film history as the setting for a key scene in Carol Reeds in post-war Vienna film The Third Man (1949) with Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles . The award of the title on June 9, 2016 coincided with the anniversary year of the Vienna Prater , which was opened to the public as a recreation area 250 years earlier.
2016	Sergei Parajanov Museum	Armenia / Yerevan	The museum, founded in 1988 and opened in 1991, is dedicated to the film director and visual artist Sergei Parajanov ( The Stone Flower , The Color of the Pomegranate ) . Around 1,600 exhibits are shown, alongside installations, drawings and collages that he has created, as well as parts of his correspondence and items from his personal possessions.
2016	Sant Vicenç de Cardona	Spain / Cardona	The former collegiate monastery , built in the 11th century, was one of the main locations for Orson Welles ' Shakespeare adaptation Falstaff (English: Chimes at Midnight ) in 1964 . During around thirty minutes of the film, buildings of the complex can be seen as the castles of Henry IV and Henry Percy, as well as the cathedral where Henry V is crowned.
2017	Plaza de España	Spain / Seville	Erected on the occasion of the Exposición Ibero-Americana in 1929 in Art Deco , Neo-Renaissance and Neo- Mudéjar styles , the ensemble has since served as a backdrop for film productions, including Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones and Sacha Baron Cohen's Der Dictator . The scenes for David Leans Lawrence of Arabia were filmed in the British Cairo headquarters in Seville.
2017	Hovs Hallar	Sweden / Skåne	The rough landscape of volcanic origin formed the backdrop for the opening scene of Ingmar Bergman's film drama The Seventh Seal , in which the knight Antonius Block proposes a game of chess to death who comes to fetch him. Today's nature reserve was added to the list in a joint ceremony between the Academy and Film i Skåne on December 20, 2017
2019	Moulin d'Andé / Mill of Andé ( fr )	France / Andé	Set for Jules and Jim (1962) by François Truffaut and The Fight on the Island (1962) by Alain Cavalier ; September 14, 2019 attended by the EFA Board members Christophe Leparc and was Béatrice Thiriet the emblem Treasure of European Film Culture attached