Filmbyen
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Filmbyen is a film studio complex located in Hvidovre
just outside Copenhagen
, Denmark
.
Filmbyen is a former military base. It houses many film-related companies. Many films and TV-series have been shot there.
It was founded by Lars von Trier
and Peter Aalbæk Jensen
's company Zentropa
in 1997 and as of 2007 is still owned and run by Zentropa.
The story of Filmbyen, its people and companies is told in Thomas Vilhelm's book Filmbyen (Ekstra Bladets Forlag, 2007) or in the movie "Filmbyen, the new Mecqua of cinema" from the director Pablo Tréhin-Marçot (France/ 2007).
Hvidovre
Hvidovre Kommune is a municipality in Region Hovedstaden near Copenhagen on the island of Zealand in eastern Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 22 km², and has a total population of 49,380...
just outside Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
, Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
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Filmbyen is a former military base. It houses many film-related companies. Many films and TV-series have been shot there.
It was founded by Lars von Trier
Lars von Trier
Lars von Trier is a Danish film director and screenwriter. He is closely associated with the Dogme 95 collective, although his own films have taken a variety of different approaches, and have frequently received strongly divided critical opinion....
and Peter Aalbæk Jensen
Peter Aalbæk Jensen
Peter Aalbæk Jensen is a Danish film producer who in 1992 with director Lars von Trier founded the Danish film company Zentropa and later its huge studio complex Filmbyen....
's company Zentropa
Zentropa
Europa is a film directed by Lars von Trier. Released in 1991, it is von Trier's third theatrical feature film and is the final film in the Europa trilogy....
in 1997 and as of 2007 is still owned and run by Zentropa.
The story of Filmbyen, its people and companies is told in Thomas Vilhelm's book Filmbyen (Ekstra Bladets Forlag, 2007) or in the movie "Filmbyen, the new Mecqua of cinema" from the director Pablo Tréhin-Marçot (France/ 2007).