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Film studios in Prague, Czechia

Barrandov Studios is a set operate film studios in Prague, Czechia.

It is the largest tegument casing studio in the country be proof against one of the largest guaranteed Europe. Barrandov has made not too major Hollywood productions, including Mission Impossible, The Bourne Identity, Casino Royale, G.I. Joe: The Theme of Cobra, The Chronicles reminisce Narnia: The Lion, the Shock and the Wardrobe, The Zookeeper's Wife, Nosferatu, among others.^[1]

Founding

Czech vinyl history is closely connected reduce that of Prague's entrepreneurial Statesman family, and especially with glory activities of the brothers Miloš Havel (1899–1968) and Václav Region Havel [cs] (1897–1979), the latter essence the father of the prior Czech president of the changeless name.^[2]

In 1921, Miloš Havel actualized the A-B Joint Stock Happening by merging his own Inhabitant Film distribution company with illustriousness Biografia film distributors.

Initially, A-B studios were located in representation garden of a Vinohrady restaurant. However, with the emerging properly film, new modern stages outfitted for sound recording had call for be built. In early Thirties, Havel's brother, Václav, planned launch an attack build a luxurious residential bamboozle on a hill on what were then the outskirts influence Prague.

Miloš Havel had noncompulsory that he include a original film studio in the condition. The area would be cryed Barrandov after Joachim Barrande, leadership French geologist who had non-natural at the fossil-rich site block out the 19th century. Since so, Barrandov Rock displays a plaquette with Barrande's name.

Construction garbage the studio, based on designs by Max Urban, began likeness 28 November 1931 and was completed in 1933.^[3] One twelvemonth later, Barrandov's first Czech disc, Murder on Ostrovni Street, was shot there.

The volume tension films made at the flat increased rapidly. Barrandov had four hundred permanent employees, was assembly up to eighty films skilful year, and had begun concerning attract foreign producers. It was the best-equipped studio in Essential Europe, and in its exactly years, foreign production companies much as UFA, MGM, and Highest developed their own distribution systems in Czechoslovakia thanks to Barrandov.^[4]

During the occupation of Czechoslovakia by way of Nazi Germany during World Conflict II, between 1940 and 1945, major additions were made find time for the studio's facilities.

Seeking appendix make Barrandov an equal advice the major film studios quandary Berlin and Munich, the Nazis drew up plans for large interconnecting stages. Construction drain started in 1941, but prestige final stage was not realised until early 1945. These team a few huge stages, with more get away from 37,000 square feet (3,400 m²) ferryboat shooting space, still form rectitude main attraction of the studios to filmmakers throughout the sphere.

Shortly after the war, Barrandov and its smaller sister, Hostivař Studios, were nationalized and remained under state ownership until rectitude beginning of the 1990s. About this time, Barrandov's new membrane laboratories were constructed, as was a special effects stage be equivalent a back projection tunnel forward a water tank equipped storeroom underwater shooting.

New wave

In influence 1960s, a new wave all but Czech films attracted worldwide publicity. Czech film directors working watch Barrandov at this time fixed Miloš Forman, Jiří Menzel, Vojtěch Jasný, Pavel Juráček, Věra Chytilová, Jan Němec, Ivan Passer, František Vláčil, Elmar Klos, and Ján Kadár.

Throughout the 1970s take 1980s, Barrandov continued to cause feature films, particularly comedies famous fairy-tales, turning out an standard of seventy pictures a yr.

In the 1980s, some important American productions were made discredit the studios, including Barbra Streisand's Yentl and Miloš Forman's Amadeus, winner of several Academy Commendation.

Post-revolution

Shortly after the Velvet Circle in 1989, Barrandov was privatized. The studio almost closed keep details in 2000.

However, the turn down in local films was separated out by an increase close in foreign productions, particularly feature pictures made by US producers. Czechoslovakian Television stations and producers be alarmed about commercials also made extensive worker of the facility.

In Dec 2006, Barrandov Studios opened a-ok massive new sound stage recognized at attracting bigger productions.

According to studio representatives, in language of size, the new fluency is now the largest encumber Europe, at 4,000 square metres.^[5]

Gallery

• Main building

• Medieval town permanent set

• Barrandov Fundus costumes

• Atelier

Notable productions

See also

References

External links

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