"Dream Factory" in Mariánské Lázně. An account of films shot in Mariánské Lázně from 1933 to 2021.

One day, in November 2020, when kovid was rampant in the world, we were walking through the city center. As we passed by Central Lázně, we saw an extraordinary revival for that time. A movie was being filmed. As we found out later, it was a thriller called Army of Thieves. I saw it recently. It's a fascinating movie. Especially those episodes filmed in Mariánské Lázně. In total, I managed to find 16 movies filmed in Mariánské Lázně. All of them are interesting in their own way. I watched them with pleasure. I found episodes related to Mariánské Lázně. I figured out where it was filmed. And my video is ready. I suggest you watch it.
"To Mariánské Lázně!!! That's a great idea."
"We're going to the spa this year too. When we have vacation. Marienbad too? I like them the best."
"Let's go to Marianchi!!!"
For obvious reasons, the creators of all these movies tried to show the most spectacular, beautiful and famous places in Mariánské Lázně. These are the Main Colonnade, the Cross Spring Pavilion, and the Colonnade of Rudolf and Ferdinand. I will not comment on such obvious episodes. You know these places perfectly well without me. And my parsing will concern those episodes, the locations of which are more difficult to determine.
The debut of Mariánské Lázně in cinematography is the Czechoslovak comedy "A Thousand for One Night". It premiered in 1933. An energetic wife sends her battered husband to a balneal resort to look after her lecherous nephew, but in the end things turn out differently. Episodes of the movie filmed in Mariánské Lázně. Otekl "Palace" with restaurant. View from the Rudolf Colonnade on Central Lázně.
Czechoslovak musical comedy premiered in 1955, Music from Mars. The newly formed orchestra of the Mars furniture factory arrives for their first tour to the resort of Cholodná Teplá (Mariánské Lázně). Their first performance, in which they played mostly only musical scales, is recorded on the radio and they become famous and in demand all over the country. Episodes of the movie filmed in Mariánské Lázně. This episode was filmed at perhaps the most famous hotel in Mariánské Lázně, the Hotel Weimar. Goethe and Alexander 1, King of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, King Edward the Seventh of England stayed there many times and Emperor Franz Joseph 1 met here more than once. In 1950 it was taken over by the local organization Czechoslovak State Resorts and renamed Kavkaz. In the movie, a sign hangs on it - Hotel Kolonada. The Roman Catholic Church of the Day of the Ascension of the Virgin Mary can be seen through the bus window. View of Spa Hotel Zvezda
Czechoslovak movie based on the short story "On Supernatural Things" by Charles Čapek, premiered in 1959. A novella in which a jealous husband hires a detective to spy on his wife. But, this same detective is also paid by the wife's lover. Episodes of the movie filmed in Mariánské Lázně. The fountain on Goethe Square and the grand staircase to the Caucasus Hotel.
Screen adaptation of Dostoevsky's novel "The Gambler" 1972. Czechoslovakia-USSR. The plot unfolds in a resort town with a fictitious name Ruletenburg (Mariánské Lázně). Here lives a group of people hopelessly addicted to gambling. Among them is the young Russian Alexei Ivanovich. The Fountain and the Caucasus. Only now it is called the Palace Hotel. A riddle for connoisseurs. Where is this place? The correct answer is Masarykova Street. The store is gone. It's now the Kolonad residence, and then the Sněžek residence. The panoramic cafe of the Hotel Monti. Again Caucasus and Zvezda. Nové Lázně, main entrance. Pavilion of the Cross Spring. Cafe-terrace of the Spa Hotel Skalnik.
Czechoslovakia - GDR co-production film from 1973. Shots in Mariánské Lázně. Historical crime drama. Investigation of a crime that took place in 1933, shortly after Hitler's rise to power, when philosopher Theodor Lessing was shot dead in Mariánské Lázně. The movie episodes filmed in Mariánské Lázně. A riddle for unique connoisseurs. Where is this street? Where is this house? The correct answer is 213/33 Třebízského Street. Villa Edelweiss. The rear part of the house facing the forest. Gymnasium and bypass academy. Russkaya Street, house 424/26. St. Vladimir's Orthodox Church. Hotel Falkensteiner. Question for connoisseurs. Where is the shooting coming from? Correct answer. The tower of the Hotel Reitenberger. The entrance to the demolished in 1977 Tepel House - Crimea. Yugoslavskaya Street. Corner of Russkaya Street and Mladievskogo Street. Paradise Residence and Spa Hotel Olympia. 75/16 Russkaya Street, former Bulgaria Hotel and house 74/14 Hostel Teresian.