New Wave
The Prague Spring of the mid-1960s was accompanied by a New Wave of Czech feature films which attracted worldwide attention. Czech film directors working at Barrandov at this time included Miloš Forman, Jiří Menzel, Vojtěch Jasný, Pavel Juráček, Věra Chytilová, Jan Němec, Ivan Passer, Elmar Klos or Ján Kadár. Closely Watched Trains (Menzel) and The Shop on Main Street (Klos and Kadár) each won the American Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and Forman’s The Firemen's Ball and Loves of a Blonde achieved Oscar nominations.
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s Barrandov continued to produce high quality feature films, particularly comedies and Czech fairy tales, turning out an average of seventy pictures a year. In the 1980s foreign film-makers started to return to Prague in order to avail themselves of the Studio’s quality facilities and the country’s wonderful variety of film locations. Major productions included Barbra Streisand’s Yentl and Miloš Forman’s U.S. production of Amadeus (winner of several American Academy Awards, including the Oscar for Best Picture).
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