15-08-2013

History TV Series Bring Summer Business to Prague

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    The first of three multi-episode international dramas for broadcast has wrapped with the completion of location shoots on 1864, the Czech/Danish/German co-production shot at Barrandov through Sirena Film, with epic battle scenes set up recently in Milovice.

    The project, based on Tom Buk-Swienty's best-selling novel Slagtebænk Dybbøl, about the battle in which Germany seized a third of Denmark's territory, is the most expensive Danish TV production ever, and nearly half its 577m CZK budget was spent in the Czech Republic, according to the Czech Film Commission.

    Danish producers Miso Film employed 200 Czech crewmembers and shot in Brno, Prague, Terezín, Lednice and elsewhere. 1864 will be released in Denmark next year.
    The BBC series The Musketeers, co-produced with Czech Anglo Productions (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), is set to wrap in early October, having spent more than half its 408m CZK budget here, employing mainly locals in its 200-member crew. Using mainly existing locations, the project shoots in Doksany, where crews have recreated a garrison, a Paris street and square, but it's also incorporating settings in Křivoklát, Terezín, Kroměříž, Slavkov, Kutná Hora, and in Prague at the Strahov Library and on Liliová Street. Broadcast in Britain is in February.

    And season 3 of Borgia, a co-production of France's Atlantique, Beta Films GMBH and Prague's Etic (www.etic.cz/‎) and Film United, (www.filmunited.cz), resumed its Italian Renaissance set at Barrandov this spring for a three-month shoot encompassing the Martinic Palace plus locales in Dobříš, Švihov, Výsluní, Cheb and Milovice. Some 137 local crew were hired with a budget of 16m EUR.