Barrandov Studios produced Oscar winning films in action.
 It was the best-equipped studio in Central Europe and in the early years, foreign production companies such as UFA, MGM, and Paramount developed their own distribution systems in Czechoslovakia because of it
== Founding ==Czech film history is closely connected with that of Prague's entrepreneurial Havel family, and especially with the activities of the brothers Milo Havel (18991968) and Vclav Maria Havel (18971979) (Vclav was the father of the Czech President of the same name)

