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Film Locations
Mission: Impossible
Cars explode on Kampa
Island, restaurants explode on
the Old Town Square. The
opulent party in the thriller's
opening scene takes place in the
National Museum, in this 1996
sci-fi fantasy starring Tom Cruise.
Les Misérables
Jean Valjean, played by Liam
Neeson, fled from the
gendarme
on Hrad≤anské nám∂stí through
Prague sewers in the 1998 re-
make of this classic tale. Neeson
also fled from fans at Molly
Malone's Irish pub.
Amadeus
Amadeus
As a drunken Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart, Tom Hulce
staggered through Malá Strana's
narrow Thunovská alley in Milo√
Forman's Academy Award-
winning 1984 interpretation of
Peter Shaffer's successful play.
Prague was a well chosen
location for the film, since
Mozart's
Don Giovanni
debuted
at the Estates Theatre
(see p64)
,
and Praguers are intensely proud
of the association.
The Shooter
In a chase scene, Dolph
Lundgren leaps from a rooftop at
Prague Castle and lands,
miraculously, on the National
Theatre; Prague audiences were
unimpressed by this lack of
authenticity in 1995.
The Unbearable
Lightness
of Being
Daniel Day Lewis and
Juliette Binoche
played an unhappily
married couple living
on Radnické schody
during the 1968
Warsaw Pact invasion,
in the 1988 film
adaptation of Milan
Kundera's dark novel
about love, relation-
ships and betrayal
(see p45)
.
Les Misérables
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