Hostel Film Locations
During my last Trip to the Czech Republic i was able to track down some of the Filming Locations for the 2005 Movie Hostel, directed by Eli Roth. Filming was mostly done in the beautiful Town of Cesky Krumlov.
I still have no Idea where the Train Station is located which they used for the Suicide Szene at the End of the Movie, so if anyone has any Idea, please let me know...
Sorry for the poor Editing and the shaky Camera sometimes, i hope you enjoy the Video anyway...
If you do, please leave a Comment...
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Author claims 16 paintings by Nazi era artists belonged to Adolf Hitler
(1 Mar 2012) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of men moving into place the painting Remembrance of Stalingrad by Franz Eichhorst, at Doksany Convent
2. Tight tilt up of Remembrance of Stalingrad by Franz Eichhorst
3. Zoom in on Kuchar in front of painting, Remembrance of Stalingrad by Franz Eichhorst
4. Wide of Werden by Friedrich Kalb
5. Close up of Werden by Friedrich Kalb
6. SOUNDBITE (Czech) Jiri Kuchar, Czech author and builder, who discovered the paintings:
I am not an historian, I am a builder, but when you see this and you get your hands on some sort of proof, it must excite every journalist at least for the phenomenon that it is.
7. Pan from photographer to man standing in front of painting End of Party Day Congress in Nuremberg by Paul Herrmann
8. Various of End of Party Day Congress in Nuremberg showing Nazi flag
9. Wide tilt down of paintings on floor
10. Wide of Doksany convent
11. Rack focus from branches to cross
12. Wide of convent towers
STORYLINE:
A five-year search by a Czech author has discovered that 16 paintings in the Czech Republic were once owned by Adolf Hitler.
The art works, which Hitler bought in Germany during World War II, had been moved to Czechoslovakia after it was occupied by the Nazis to prevent them being damaged by Allied attacks.
On Monday, author Jiri Kuchar put seven of the paintings on display for reporters at the convent in Doksany in northern Czech Republic where he had identified them.
Kuchar said Hitler bought the 16 paintings - by German artists such as Franz Eichhorst, Paul Herrmann, Sepp Hilz, Friedrich W. Kalb, Oscar Oestreicher, Edmund Steppes and Armin Reumann - in 1942 and 1943 at the Great German art exhibitions that were held annually in Munich from 1937 to 1944.
The German institute whose database includes the works and their buyers - Zentralinstitut fur Kunstgeschichte in Munich - confirmed Hitler's ownership to The Associated Press.
Its art experts said on Tuesday that the collection was interesting but of low value.
As a former artist, Hitler was an art lover and collector.
Countless paintings, many done by major European painters, were seized by the Nazis during the Second World War.
At one point, Hitler's private collection, known as the 'Linz Collection', included almost 5,000 works, and the Nazis had once
planned to create a museum for them in Linz, Austria.
In addition to the seven works identified at the convent, Kuchar found seven more that Hitler had once owned at the northern Czech chateau of Zakupy, and one each at the Military History Institute in Prague and the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague.
Some contain obvious signs of Nazi propaganda.
During the occupation, it is believed that the 16 works were part of Hitler's collection of more than 70 pieces of contemporary German art that the Third Reich stored at a monastery in the southern Czech town of Vyssi Brod, together with larger collections of valuable paintings stolen from Jewish families in Europe.
After the war, valuable paintings possessed by the Nazis were confiscated by the U.S. Army and taken to the Munich Central
Collection Point in an effort to return them to their original owners.
Many less valuable works were left behind after the 1945 liberation of Czechoslovakia and ended up scattered across the
country.
Fourteen of the 16 works that Kuchar has identified as former Hitler possessions are now owned by the Czech National Institute for the Protection and Conservation of Monuments and Sites, and it doesn't plan to sell them or put them on public display.
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