Kinokontsern «Mosfil'm»

Mosfilm in southwest Moscow is the oldest and largest film studio in Russia and one of the biggest in Europe. Founded in 1920 under Lenin, the studio produced the classics that brought Soviet cinema world fame - from Eisenstein's "Ivan the Terrible" and Tarkovsky's "Andrei Rublev" to Bondarchuk's four-part adaptation of "War and Peace", whose 12,000 extras still make it one of the most expensive films ever made. The 345,000-square-metre site holds 13 sound stages, a costume archive of hundreds of thousands of pieces and the "Old Moscow Street", a permanent outdoor backlot with cobblestone alleys. Today guided studio tours show working sets, the Mosfilm Museum with original vehicles and the hall with the glass aircraft from "The Diamond Arm". Booking ahead is required.