Between Austria-Hungary and the Eastern Bloc : The Czech Fictional Landscape in Foreign Films

Abstract

The article analyzes the exaggerated Czech landscape in the films XXX (2002), Wanted (2008) and Last Holiday (2006) and connects it to historical examples from Romanticism and Gothic horror.

Keywords

• film architecture
• landscape
• landscape painting
• Gothic horror
• The Winter's Tale
• XXX
• Wanted
• Last Holiday