Hostivař Studios

The Hostivar Studios are film studios located in the Czech capital Prague. During the German Occupation of Czechoslovakia from 1939 to 1945, along with the larger Barrandov Studios they were used by the German-owned companies for productions as well as some Czech-language films.[1] Particularly in the later years of the Second World War, many major German productions were shot in Prague to avoid the heavy bombing on Berlin.[2] Following the war, they were taken over by the nationalised Czech film industry. In 1947 they burned down, but were rebuilt and enlarged.[3] Later they were converted into television studios.

References
  1. Kreimeier p.338
  2. Fox p.260
  3. Dewey p.33

Bibliography
  • Dewey, Langdon. Outline of Czechoslovakian Cinema. Informatics, 1971.
  • Fox, Jo. Film Propaganda in Britain and Nazi Germany: World War II Cinema. Bloomsbury Academic, 2007.
  • Kreimeier, Klaus. The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918-1945.University of California Press, 1999.
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