Alfred Hitchcock made his first film, "The Pleasure Garden", in Geiselgasteig in 1925. In 1934 "Peer Gynt" was made there. The studios have been used by numerous directors, including Elia Kazan ("Man on a Tightrope", 1952), Max Ophüls ("Lola Montès", 1955), Stanley Kubrick ("Paths of Glory", 1957), Richard Fleischer ("The Vikings", 1958), John Huston ("", 1962), Robert Siodmak ("The Nina B. Affair", 1960), Billy Wilder ("One, Two, Three", 1961 and "Fedora", 1978), John Sturges ("The Great Escape", 1963), Robert Wise ("The Sound of Music", 1965), Orson Welles ("The Deep", 1967), Jerzy Skolimowski ("Deep End", 1970), Mel Stuart ("Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory", 1971), Bob Fosse ("Cabaret", 1972), Wim Wenders ("Ein Haus für uns (2 TV episodes)", 1974), Ingmar Bergman ("The Serpent's Egg", 1977), Robert Aldrich ("Twilight's Last Gleaming", 1977), Wolfgang Petersen ("Enemy Mine", 1985), Claude Chabrol ("The Bridesmaid", 2004), and Oliver Stone (The Snowden Files, 2015).