Bavaria Film Studios
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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.
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.
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), Bob Fosse ("Cabaret"; 1972), 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.
The Bavaria Film is wellknown for their television films but have also created successful cine films like Wolfgang Petersen's Das Boot, Enemy Mine and The Never Ending Story and Tom Tykwer's Perfume: The Story of a Murderer.
The Bavaria Film Tour is an attraction offered for tourists.
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