Bavaria Film Studios

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The Bavaria Film in Geiselgasteig, a district of Munich's suburb Grünwald, Bavaria was founded already in 1919 and belongs to Europe's biggest and most famous movie production studios.

Alfred Hitchcock made his first movie The Pleasure Garden in Geiselgasteig in 1925. Then numerous famous movie directors like Billy Wilder, Orson Welles, John Huston, Ingmar Bergman, Stanley Kubrick, Claude Chabrol, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wolfgang Petersen and Wim Wenders have made films there. Also Monty Python has worked in Geiselgasteig.

The Bavaria Film is wellknown for their television films but have also created successful cine films like Cabaret, Das Boot, Enemy Mine, The Never Ending Story and Perfume: The Story of a Murderer.

The Bavaria Film Tour is an attraction offered for tourists.

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