The Bavaria Film Studios in Geiselgasteig, a district of Munich's suburb Grünwald, Bavaria belongs to Europe's biggest and most famous movie production studios. Munich (German: , pronounced  ) is the capital of the German Federal State of Bavaria (German: ). Munich is Germanys third largest city and one of Europes most prosperous and expensive. ... Grünwald is a municipality in the district of Munich, in Bavaria, Germany. ...

The studios were founded already in 1919 by the movie producer Peter Ostermayr, who established the Münchner Lichtspielkunst AG (Emelka) in competition to the UFA and acquired a large estate (ca. 356.000 m²) in Geiselgasteig for the studios. In 1932 the major shareholder Wilhelm Kraus founded the Bavaria Film. In 1938 the Bavaria Film was nationalised but privatised again in 1956. Year 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... UFA logo Universum Film AG, better known as Ufa or UFA, was the principal film studio in Germany, home of the German film industry during the Weimar Republic and through World War II, and a major force in world cinema during its brief existence from 1917 to 1945. ...

Alfred Hitchcock made his first movie The Pleasure Garden in Geiselgasteig in 1925. Then numerous famous movie directors like Orson Welles ("Richard III"; 1950), Max Ophüls ("Lola Montez"; 1954), Stanley Kubrick ("Paths of Glory"; 1957), John Huston ("Freud", 1960), Robert Siodmak (L`Affaire Nina B; 1960), Billy Wilder ("One, Two, Three"; 1961), Ingmar Bergman (The Serpent's Egg; 1977), Robert Aldrich ("Twilight's Last Gleaming"; 1977), Rainer Werner Fassbinder ("Berlin Alexanderplatz (television)"; 1980), Claude Chabrol and Wim Wenders have made films there. Also Monty Python worked in Geiselgasteig. Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (August 13, 1899 – April 29, 1980) was a highly influential film director and producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres. ... The Pleasure Garden is a 1925 film, and the debut feature of Alfred Hitchcock. ... 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American theatre, screenwriter and film producer and director, and a theatre, radio and film actor. ... Max Ophüls (May 6, 1902 – March 25, 1957) was a German-born Jewish film director. ... Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an influential and acclaimed American film director and producer. ... Paths of Glory (1957) is an anti-war film by Stanley Kubrick based on the novel of the same name by Humphrey Cobb. ... John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director and actor. ... Robert Siodmak (August 8, 1900 - March 10, 1973) was a film director born in Memphis, Tennessee (sometimes his birthplace is stated as Dresden, Germany). ... Billy Wilder (June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was an Austrian-American journalist, screenwriter, film director, and producer whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. ... This article is about the movie. ... Ingmar Bergman   (IPA: in Swedish) (born July 14, 1918) is a Swedish stage and film director who is one of the key film auteurs of the twentieth century. ... The Serpents Egg is a 1977 English and German film directed by Ingmar Bergman, set in 1920s Berlin. ... Robert Aldrich (August 9, 1918 – December 5, 1983) was a United States film director, writer and producer notable for a number of films including What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte, and The Dirty Dozen. ... Twilights Last Gleaming is the story of Lawrence Dell, a renegade USAF general, who escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to launch the misslies and start World War III unless the President revels the real reason why America fought in... Rainer Werner Fassbinder (May 31, 1945 – June 10, 1982) was a German movie director, screenwriter and actor, one of the most important representatives of the New German Cinema. ... Originally broadcast in 1980, this television mini-series was adapted and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and starred Günter Lamprecht, Hanna Schygulla, Barbara Sukowa, Elisabeth Trissenaar and Gottfried John. ... Claude Chabrol (born June 24, 1930) is a French movie director and has become well-known in the 40 years since his first film, Le Beau Serge, for his chilling tales of murder, including Le Boucher. ... Wim Wenders at Cannes, 2002. ... Monty Python, or The Pythons, is the collective name of the creators of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, a British television comedy sketch show that first aired on the BBC on 5 October 1969. ...

The Bavaria Film is wellknown for their television films but have also created successful cine films like Bob Fosse's Cabaret, Wolfgang Petersen's Das Boot, Enemy Mine and The Never Ending Story and Tom Tykwer's Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. Bob Fosse, early promotional image. ... Cabaret is a 1972 film. ... Wolfgang Petersen Wolfgang Petersen (born March 14, 1941 in Emden, Lower Saxony, Germany) is a German film director. ... Das Boot (IPA pronunciation: /das boːt/, German for The Boat) is a feature film directed by Wolfgang Petersen, adapted from a novel of the same name by Lothar-Günther Buchheim. ... Enemy Mine is a science fiction story by Barry B. Longyear. ... Die Unendliche Geschichte (better known by its English title The NeverEnding Story), is the 1984 film adaptation of the German fantasy novel by Michael Ende. ... Tom Tykwer (born May 23, 1965 in Wuppertal, Germany) is a German film director. ...

The Bavaria Film Tour is an attraction offered for tourists.

External links

• Bavaria Film GmbH
• Bavaria Film- und Fernsehstudios GmbH
• Bavaria Film Tour

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