Although it seems incredible, director Julius Ševčík’s biographical film Masaryk, detailing the international life and times of Czech politician and diplomat Jan Masaryk, was shot entirely in the Czech Republic.
Anyone who has seen the Karel Roden-helmed biopic knows that it is set in 1939 during Masaryk’s journeys to America and London where he served at the Czechoslovak embassy just before the outbreak of the Second World War.
While some stock footage was taken during a production trip to London, scenes with actors that were meant to be in certain iconic global locations were actually filmed right here in Prague.
For instance, the Čech Bridge doubled for the Westminster Bridge while the Hotel InterContinental stood in for the Palace of Westminster; a psychiatric ward in the US was actually the maternity hospital Prague U Apolináře.