verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . april 2011 learn how and when to remove this template message barrandov studios type subsidiary of moravia steel industry motion pictures founded 1921 headquarters prague barrandov czech republic website www.barrandov.cz barrandov studios is 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 . several of the movies filmed there won oscars . 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 prince caspian and many others . noted director roman polanski claims barrandov is the world s best studio . 1 the studios make an annual award of the golden trilobite zlat trilobit . 2 3 contents 1 founding 2 new wave 3 recent situation 4 notable films 4.1 1930s 1945 4.2 1960s 4.3 1970s 4.4 1980s 4.5 1990s 4.6 2000s 4.7 2010s 5 references 6 external links founding edit the barrande sign on barrandov rocks czech film history is closely connected with that of prague s entrepreneurial havel family and especially with the activities of the brothers milo havel 1899 1968 and v clav maria havel 1897 1979 v clav was the father of the czech president of the same name . in 1921 milo havel created the a b joint stock company by merging his american film distribution company with the biografia film distributors . at the beginning of the 1930s his brother v clav planned to build a luxurious residential complex on a hill five kilometers outside prague . milo 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 worked at the fossil rich site in the 19th century . still the barrandov rock has the plaque with barrande s name . construction of the studio based on designs by max urban began on 28 november 1931 and was completed in 1933 . 4 fourteen months later barrandov s first czech film murder on ostrovni street was shot there . 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 . it was the best equipped studio in central europe and in the early years foreign production companies such as ufa mgm and paramount developed their own distribution systems in czechoslovakia because of it . 5 during the occupation of czechoslovakia by nazi germany during world war ii 1940 1945 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 3 400 m2 of shooting space still form the main attraction of the studios to film makers throughout the world . shortly after the war barrandov and its smaller sister studio facility at hostiva 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 . new wave edit 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 milo forman ji menzel vojt ch jasn pavel jur ek v ra chytilov jan n mec ivan passer elmar klos or j n kad r. closely watched trains menzel and the shop on main street klos and kad r 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 . 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 variety of film locations . major productions included barbra streisand s yentl and milo forman s us production of amadeus winner of several american academy awards including the oscar for best picture . recent situation edit 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 . on december 2006 barrandov studios have officially opened max a massive new soundstage aimed at attracting bigger productions than ever . according to studio representatives in terms of size the new facility is now the largest in europe at 4 000 square metres . max is also almost 14 metres high which means it should provide room for even the most demanding of productions . barrandov is owned by moravia steel which is owned by group of slovak entrepreneurs . notable films edit 1930s 1945 edit kleider machen leute 1940 with heinz r hmann and hertha feiler die fledermaus 1945 46 with johannes heesters carl peters 1940 41 jud s 1940 gro e freiheit nr . 7 1943 with hans albers the spring vesna 1945 47 by grigory alexandrov 1960s edit lemonade joe 1964 the shop on main street 1965 loves of a blonde 1965 daisies 1966 closely watched trains 1966 marketa lazarov 1967 the firemen s ball 1967 the end of agent w4c 1967 1970s edit three nuts for cinderella 1973 pat & mat ku ci 1976 dinner for adele 1977 1980s edit yentl 1983 amadeus 1984 my sweet little village 1985 battle of moscow 1985 boris godunov 1986 princess jasnenka and the flying shoemaker 1987 radik ln ez 1983 1990s edit kafka 1991 the elementary school 1991 the young indiana jones chronicles 1992 stalingrad 1993 immortal beloved 1994 underground 1995 the shooter 1995 kolya 1996 mission impossible 1996 snow white a tale of terror 1997 les mis rables 1998 my giant 1998 the barber of siberia 1998 plunkett & macleane 1999 ravenous 1999 2000s edit 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 the league of extraordinary gentlemen 2002 hitler the rise of evil 2003 frank herbert s children of dune 2003 shanghai knights 2003 the mystery of the third planet 2003 czech dubbing production 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 alias season 4 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 hannibal rising 2007 hostel part 2 2007 babylon a.d. 2007 the chronicles of narnia prince caspian 2008 g.i. joe the rise of cobra 2009 the philanthropist tv series 2009 2010s edit burnt by the sun 2 2010 faust 2011 mission impossible iv ghost protocol 2011 borgia 2011 a royal affair 2012 the hypnotist 2012 snowpiercer 2013 serena 2014 child 44 2014 g.jedna prvn st vka 2014 czech dubbing production anthropoid film 2016 references edit noted director claims barrandov is the world s best studio bawden liz anne ed . 1976 the oxford companion to film . london oxford university press ; p. 55 trilobites are found as fossils in the barrandov cliffs . bawden liz anne ed . 1976 the oxford companion to film . london oxford university press ; p. 55 bawden liz anne ed . 1976 the oxford companion to film . london oxford university press ; p. 55 external links edit official website article about barrandov studio 18 january 2007 ond ej lip r official czech republic website radio prague article about new technologies at barrandov studios seventy five years of film at barrandov studios czech radio http www.bloomberg.com news 2013 12 27 prague s barrandov crosses lines to tv as movie output stalls.html coordinates 50 01.841 n 14 23.493 e 50.030683 n 14.391550 e 50.030683 ; 14.391550 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title barrandov studios & oldid 743488156 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