Bavaria Studios & Production Services

Making a movie in Europe was more affordable.

So Stanley decided to shoot the movie in Germany at Bavaria Studios outside Munich.

[car driving] [suspenseful music] Stanley Kubrick arrived in Germany in early February.

Jimmy joined him a couple of weeks later, and that's when he first read Stanley's new ending to Paths of Glory, the one where the soldiers don't get executed.

to most American audiences, which helped Charlie's town feel like a place that really could have existed anywhere.

Inside Bavaria Studios, production designer Harper Goff built the factory as a series of environments that became stranger as the tour continued.

The centerpiece was, of course, the chocolate room.

Artificial grass, oversized mushrooms, candy-colored trees, pipes, platforms, and a brown river that looked considerably more appetizing on film than it apparently did in person.