A film legacy shaped by studios, crews, and international productions

We made our first international venture in 1963 by offering film production services to an American partner for the Lum and Abner series. Continuous co-productions and partnerships with foreign companies started strongly in the early 1960s.

After filming Orson Welles' The Trial, and several films for Dino De Laurentiis, we also filmed with partners from France, Germany, and Italy, and extended our partnership with US companies filming the famous films Isadora Duncan and Fiddler on the Roof.

We succeeded in having foreign partners join our domestic projects, including The Assassination in Sarajevo with Franco Nero and others. In 1975, in cooperation with Jadran Film, Sam Peckinpah's Cross of Iron was produced starring James Coburn, James Mason, and Maximilian Schell. In 1977, Guy Hamilton directed Force 10 from Navarone with Harrison Ford and Robert Shaw.

In 1979, Volker Schlondorff's The Tin Drum won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and was also awarded the Palme d'Or, the first prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

Long years of work and experience have confirmed our reputation for producing some of the world's largest film projects. In 1980, Paramount, in cooperation with Jadran Film, produced the greater part of the mini-series The Winds of War. Other films that followed included such titles as Alan Pakula's Sophie's Choice, which won the Academy Award for Meryl Streep, Brian Hutton's High Road to China, and the mini-series The Lost Hero: Wallenberg Story for Paramount, awarded with an Emmy.

In 1986, ABC produced with Jadran Film the world's most expensive television project of the year, War and Remembrance, with a budget of over 100 million US dollars.