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As a drunken Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Tom Hulce staggered through Malá Strana’s narrow Thunovská alley in Miloš 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 Stavovské divadlo), and Praguers are intensely proud of the association.

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, relationships and betrayal (see Milan Kundera).

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.

Jean Valjean, played by Liam Neeson, fled from the gendarme on Hradčanské náměstí through Prague sewers in the 1998 re-make of this classic tale. Neeson also fled from fans at Molly Malone’s Irish pub.

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 Hughes brothers turned Saská Alley near Charles Bridge and other Malá Strana locations into Jack the Ripper’s foggy London in 2001. Off-screen, Johnny Depp retreated to the smoky depths of the Blue Light bar on Josefská.

Jonny Lee Miller and Robert Carlyle blunderbuss their way up and down Thunovská. Locals were used as 18th-century extras for the 1999 production.

In 1996 Jan Svěrák cast his father Zdeněk as the grumpy, philandering cellist who restores Olšanská cemetery tombstones in his free time. The five-year-old title character gets lost in Anděl metro station (see Anděl Metro).

Jindřišská and Panská near Wenceslas Square serve as Zurich in this 2002 film adaptation of Robert Ludlum’s novel.

Even with the special effects, Prague’s skyline and Charles Bridge are easily recognizable in this sword-and-sorcery epic of 2000.