Barrandov Studios
Type	Subsidiary of Moravia Steel
Founded	1921
Headquarters	Prague, Czech Republic
Industry	Motion pictures
Website	www.barrandov.cz

Barrandov Studios are a famous set of film studios in Prague, Czech Republic. It is the largest film studio in the country and one of the largest in Europe. Image File history File links Barrandov Studios logo File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Prague (Czech: Praha (IPA: ), see also other names) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. ... For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as... This page as shown in the AOL 9. ... A film studio is a controlled environment for the making of a film. ... Prague (Czech: Praha (IPA: ), see also other names) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. ... World map showing Europe A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is one of the seven traditional continents of the Earth. ...

Several of movies filmed there won Academy Awards. At present the studios are often called the "European Hollywood" or "Hollywood of the East" due to increasing interest of western productions (such as the movies Mission Impossible, The Bourne Identity, Casino Royale and many others). The references in this article would be clearer with a different and/or consistent style of citation, footnoting or external linking. ... The Bourne Identity is a 2002 movie based on the book of the same name by Robert Ludlum. ... Casino Royale is the 21st official James Bond film produced by EON Productions and the first to star Daniel Craig as British Secret Service agent James Bond. ...

Founding

Czech film history is closely connected with that of Prague’s entrepreneurial Havel family, and especially with the activities of the brothers Miloš Havel (1899-1968) and Václav Havel (1897-1979) (Václav was the father of the Czech President of the same name). Václav Havel (official portrait) Václav Havel, GCB, CC (IPA: ) (VA-slav HA-vel) (born October 5, 1936) is a Czech writer and dramatist. ...

In 1921 Miloš Havel created the A-B Joint Stock Company by merging his American Film distribution company with the Biografia film distributors.

At the beginning of 1930s his brother Václav planned to build a luxurious residential complex on a hill five kilometers outside Prague. Miloš Havel had suggested that he include a modern film studio in the development. The area was to be called Barrandov after Joachim Barrande, the French geologist who had excavated the site in the 19th century. Joachim Barrande (August 11, 1799 - October 5, 1883) was a French geologist and palaeontologist. ... For excavation in civil engineering see earthworks (engineering). ...

Construction of the Studio, based on designs by Max Urban, began on 28 November 1931. Fourteen months later, Barrandov’s first Czech film, ‘Murder on Ostrovni Street’, was shot. The volume of films shot at the Studio increased rapidly. Barrandov had three hundred permanent employees, was making up to eighty films a year and had begun to attract foreign producers.

During the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany during World War II major additions were made to the Studio’s facilities. Seeking to make Barrandov an equal to the major film studios in Berlin and Munich, the Nazis drew up plans for three large interconnecting stages. Construction work started in 1941 but the final stage was not completed until early 1945. These three huge stages (with more than 37,000 square feet of shooting space) still form the main attraction of the Studios to film-makers throughout the world. == On the same day, Hitler met with Chamberlain at Berchtesgaden and demanded the swift return of the Sudetenland to the Third Reich under threat of war. ... Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead... Berlin is the capital city and one of the sixteen states of the Federal Republic of Germany. ... Munich: Frauenkirche and Town Hall steeple Munich: St. ...

Shortly after the War, Barrandov and its smaller sister studio facility at Hostivař were nationalized and remained under State ownership until the beginning of the 1990s. During this time, Barrandov’s impressive Film Laboratories were constructed, as was a special effects stage with a back projection tunnel and a water tank equipped for under-water shooting. Nationalization is the act of taking assets into state ownership. ... Special effects (abbreviated SPFX or SFX) are used in the film, television, and entertainment industry to create effects that cannot be achieved by normal means, such as depicting travel to other star systems. ...

New Wave

The Prague Spring of the mid-1960s was accompanied by a New Wave of Czech feature films which attracted worldwide attention. Czech film directors working at Barrandov at this time included Miloš Forman, Jiří Menzel, Vojtěch Jasný, Pavel Juráček, Věra Chytilová, Jan Němec, Ivan Passer, Elmar Klos or Ján Kadár. Closely Watched Trains (Menzel) and The Shop on Main Street (Klos and Kadár) each won the American Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and Forman’s The Firemen's Ball and Loves of a Blonde achieved Oscar nominations. People in a café watch Soviet tanks roll past The Prague Spring (Czech: Pražské jaro, Slovak: Pražská jar, Russian: пражская весна) was a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia starting January 5, 1968 when Alexander Dubček came to power, and running until August 20 of that year when the... Jan Tomáš Forman (born February 18, 1932), better known as MiloÅ¡ Forman, is a film director, actor, screenwriter and professor. ... Jiří Menzel (born February 23rd, 1938), is a Czech film director, theatre director, actor, and scriptwriter. ... VÄ›ra Chytilová (1929-) is an avant-garde Czech film director and pioneer of Czech cinema. ... Jan NÄ›ec (July 12, 1936, Prague) is a Czech filmmaker. ... Ivan Passer, (b. ... Elmar Klos (1910 - 1993) was a Czechoslovakian film director who collaborated for 17 years with Jan Kadar and with him won the 1965 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film with the film The Shop on Main Street. ... Ján Kadár (1918 in Budapest - 1979), was a Czechoslovakian film director of the New Wave movement. ... Closely Watched Trains - is a Czech - 1966 Academy Award winning film based on the story of Bohumil Hrabal. ... The Shop on Main Street (also known as Obchod na korze) is a Slovak language film from Czechoslovakia which dealt with the subject of Aryanization. ... The Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Foreign Language Film is a yearly US award for the best non-English film released in the period October - September in the country of origin. ...

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s Barrandov continued to produce high quality feature films, particularly comedies and Czech fairy tales, turning out an average of seventy pictures a year. In the 1980s foreign film-makers started to return to Prague in order to avail themselves of the Studio’s quality facilities and the country’s wonderful variety of film locations. Major productions included Barbra Streisand’s Yentl and Miloš Forman’s U.S. production of Amadeus (winner of several American Academy Awards, including the Oscar for Best Picture). A fairy tale is a story, either told to children or as if told to children, concerning the adventures of mythical characters such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, giants, and others. ... Barbra Streisand (born April 24, 1942 as Barbara Joan Streisand), is a two-time Academy Award-winning American singer, theatre and film actress, composer, film producer and director. ... Barbara Streisand on the soundtrack cover for the movie Yentl. ... Playbill, 1981 For other uses, see Amadeus (disambiguation). ...

Recent situation

Shortly after the Velvet Revolution (1989) Barrandov was privatized and the state no longer provided total funding for Czech film production. Due to being unable to adapt properly to the new conditions after the free market reform, the studio almost closed down in 2000. However, later, the decrease in local films was "compensated" by a dramatic increase in foreign productions, particularly feature films made by U.S. producers. Czech television stations and producers of commercials for television also made extensive use of the facility. Barrandov Studios now provide complete production services for visiting feature film producers and for the increasing volume of local audio-visual production. Non-violent protesters are fighting with flowers against armored policemen The Velvet Revolution (Czech: sametová revoluce, Slovak: nežná revolúcia) (November 16 – December 29, 1989) refers to a bloodless revolution in Czechoslovakia that saw the overthrow of the communist government there. ... Logo of Česká televizes ČT1 channel. ...

Notable films

1960s

• Lemonade Joe (1964)
• The Shop on Main Street (1965)
• Loves of a Blonde (1965)
• Closely Watched Trains (1966)
• The Firemen's Ball (1967)

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1970s

• Three Nuts for Cinderella (1973)

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1980s

• Yentl (1983)
• Amadeus (1984)
• My Sweet Little Village (1985)
• Boris Godunov (1986)

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1990s

• Kafka (1991)
• The Elementary School (1991)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992)
• Stalingrad (1993)
• Immortal Beloved (1994)
• Underground (1995)
• Kolya (1996)
• Mission: Impossible (1996)
• Snow White: A Tale Of Terror (1997)
• Les Misérables (1998)
• My Giant (1998)
• Plunkett & Macleane (1999)
• Ravenous (1999)

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2000s

• Dungeons & Dragons (2000)
• A Knight's Tale (2001)
• From Hell (2001)
• The Affair of the Necklace (2001)
• The Bourne Identity (2002)
• XXX (2002)
• Blade II (2002)
• Bad Company (2002)
• Hart's War (2002)
• Children of Dune (2002)
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2002)
• Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003)
• Shanghai Knights (2003)
• Chasing Liberty (2004)
• The Prince and Me (2004)
• Alien vs. Predator (2004)
• Hellboy (2004)
• Van Helsing (2004)
• Eurotrip (2004)
• Oliver Twist (2005)
• The Brothers Grimm (2005)
• Doom (2005)
• A Sound of Thunder (2005)
• Everything Is Illuminated (2005)
• Hostel (2006)
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
• Tristan and Isolde (2006)
• Last Holiday (2006)
• The Illusionist (2006)
• The Omen (2006)
• Casino Royale (2006)
• Hostel: Part 2 (2007)
• Babylon A.D. (2007)
• The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2007)

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External links

• Barrandov studios and contemporary Central European film industry
• Official site of the studios
• History of Czech cinema

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