Other film locations you might want to visit are outside comfortable walking distance of the center, but you can reach them easily by tram or metro. And what directors haven´t been able to find in Prague streets, they´ve been able to make in the city´s stuidos. Prague´s film studios have allowed filmmakers to build their sets in controlled environmets to get the perfect look.
Troja Chateau
The Troja Chateau appears in Bille August´s 1998 interpratation of Victor Hugo´s Les Miserables and in The Omen. The Baroque building now hosts exhibitions of the City Gallery. It´s also within walking distance of Prague Zoo and the Prague Botanical Gardens.
Namesti Miru
This leafy plaza in Prague´s Vinohrady neighborhood figures in several films. The neo-Gothic Church that Damien refuses to enter in The Omen. In La Mome, the square is the scene of the funeral of Edith Piaf´s patron Louis Leplée, played by Gérard Depardieu. Director Neil Burger used the Vinohrady Theater, at Namesti Miru 7, for theater scenes in The Illusionist.
Barrandov Studios
Prague´s movi-maiking history began on a bluff overlooking the city at waht would eventually become Barrandov Studios. Even before World War II, Prague had some of the best filmmaking facilities in the world. Many scenes from Casion Royale, including those in the Salon Privé, M´s London flat, and James Bond´s hotel suite, were shot on Barrandov´s stages, as were interior scenes for.
Further Afield and Where the Magic Happens
