Filming
West German officials would not allow the production to make the film in Germany because of shipping traffic on the River Rhine. Instead the film company made the film in Czechoslovakia.
Much of the action was shot in the town of Most. The old town was being demolished by the communist authorities to make way for a new "new town". The destruction of Bohemian culture has remained a controversial act ever since. Bridge scenes were shot at Davle on the Vltava River.
During the filming in 1968, the Soviet Army invaded Czechoslovakia to reinstall a hard-line Communist government forcing the film cast and crew to flee to the West in taxis.
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