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 (München; Minga is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Grünwald ( German for green forest) is a municipality in the district of Munich, in Bavaria, Germany.
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History
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. Year 1919 ( MCMXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common 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 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.
Famous films shot at Bavaria Film Studios
Alfred Hitchcock made his first movie, The Pleasure Garden, in Geiselgasteig in 1925. Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (13 The Pleasure Garden is a 1925 Silent film, and the debut feature of Alfred Hitchcock. The studios have been used by numerous famous directors, such as 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), John Sturges (The Great Escape, 1963), Robert Wise (The Sound of Music, 1965), Mel Stuart (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, (1971), Bob Fosse (Cabaret, 1972), Ingmar Bergman (The Serpent's Egg, 1977), Robert Aldrich (Twilight's Last Gleaming, 1977), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Berlin Alexanderplatz, 1980), Wolfgang Petersen (Enemy Mine, 1985), Claude Chabrol and Wim Wenders. George Orson Welles (May 6 1915 – October 10 1985 was an Academy Award -winning director, writer actor and producer for film stage radio and television Max Ophüls (born Maximillian Oppenheimer, 6 May 1902, Saarbrücken, Germany - 25 March 1957, Hamburg Paths of Glory ( 1957) is a Black and white war Film by Stanley Kubrick based on the novel of the same name by Humphrey John Marcellus Huston ( August 5 1906 &ndash August 28 1987) was an American Film director and Actor. Robert Siodmak ( August 8, 1900 - March 10, 1973) was a German born American Film director. Billy Wilder ( June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was an Austrian born Jewish - American Journalist One Two Three ( 1961) is a comedy film directed by Billy Wilder and written by I John Eliot Sturges ( 3 January 1911 &ndash 18 August 1992) was an American film director The Great Escape is a popular 1963 War film about the 250 Allied prisoners of war escaping from a German POW camp Robert Wise ( September 10, 1914 &ndash September 14, 2005) was an American sound effects editor film editor and Academy Rodgers and Hammerstein 's The Sound of Music is a Musical film directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews in the lead role Mel Stuart (born 2 September 1928) is an American Film director and producer. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is a 1971 motion picture based on the 1964 Roald Dahl novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Robert Louis “Bob” Fosse ( June 23, 1927 – September 23, 1987) was an American Musical theater Choreographer and Cabaret is a 1972 American Musical film directed by Bob Fosse and starring Liza Minnelli, Michael York Ernst Ingmar Bergman ( pronounced) (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007 was a nine-time Academy Award -nominated Swedish film, stage The Serpent's Egg is a 1977 English and German Film directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring David Robert Aldrich (August 9 1918 – December 5 1983 was an American Film director, writer and producer, notable for such films as Kiss Me Deadly Twilight's Last Gleaming is a 1977 film directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Burt Lancaster and Richard Widmark. Rainer Werner Fassbinder (May 31 1945 &ndash June 10 1982 was a German Film director, Screenwriter and Actor. Berlin Alexanderplatz, originally broadcast in 1980, is a 14-part Television series adapted and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder from the Enemy Mine is a 1985 Science fiction film based on the story of the same title by Barry B Claude Chabrol (klod ʃaˈbʁɔl in French (born 24 June 1930 Paris) is a French film director and has become well-known since his first film Ernst Wilhelm ("Wim" Wenders (born August 14, 1945) is a German Film director, Playwright, Author, Also Monty Python worked in Geiselgasteig in 1971 and 1972 for Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus, the specials for German and Austrian Television. Monty Python (sometimes known as The Pythons) is the collective name of the six creators of Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British Television Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus consisted of two 45-minute Monty Python specials produced by WDR for West German television in 1971
The Studios in Geiselgasteig are the reason why Munich has become a famous site of crime in TV fiction (in opposite to real life), with detectives like Derrick, The Old Fox, and Der Kommissar investigating. Derrick is a German TV series produced by Telenova Film- und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG The Old Fox (original German title "Der Alte", lit "The Old Man" is a German television series created in 1976, now For other uses of the term see Der Kommissar Der Kommissar ( English The Commissioner) is a German
The Bavaria Film GmbH is a film production company well known for their television films, but they have also produced successful cine films in Geiselgasteig, such as Wolfgang Petersen's Das Boot. Das Boot (das boːt German for The Boat) is a 1981 feature film directed by Wolfgang Petersen, adapted from a novel of the same
Other production companies have also produced films in the Bavaria studios, including Constantin Film, for Petersen's The Neverending Story and Tom Tykwer's Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. Constantin Film AG is a German film production and film distribution company The NeverEnding Story (Die unendliche Geschichte is a 1984 Fantasy film based on the German novel of the same name by Michael Ende Tom Tykwer (born 23 May 1965 in Wuppertal, Germany) is a German Film director best known internationally for directing Perfume The Story of a Murderer ( German Das Parfüm – Die Geschichte eines Mörders) is a 2006 German film directed by Tom Tykwer
Bavaria Film Tour
The Bavaria Film Tour is an attraction offered for tourists. Visitors taking the tour see sets and props from The Neverending Story, Das Boot, Marienhof, and many more.
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