Železiarenská Street in Košice in the film War of the Cops
The film was directed by Rudolf Biermann, based on a story and Screenplay by Arpád Soltész. The film was produced in Slovakia in 2024. The main and supporting roles are played by Alexander Bárta, Juraj Loj, Patrik "Rytmus" Vrbovský, Róbert Jakab, Marián Mitaš, Anežka Petrová, Jakub Štáfek, Ady Hajdu, Barbora Švidraňová, Annamária Janeková, Jevgenij Libezňuk, Erik Ollé, Jakub Rybárik, and Branislav Bystriansky.. The film also takes place on Moyzesova Street in Košice, in the building of the Regional Police Headquarters in the time sequence of 83rd minute.
Cop War (2024) is one of the biggest film projects that was both shot and set in Košice. Based on the successful book Rage - Then in the East by journalist Arpád Soltész, it draws on the atmosphere of the turbulent 1990s and the setting of the Eastern Slovak mafia. Miky Miko (Alexander Bárta), a reclusive police operative, can swim quite well in the milieu of warring gangs, corrupt police, and local businessmen. This world has taught him not to trust anyone and that is why he has learned to work alone. From above, however, he is assigned a police partner, Igor Molnár (Juraj Loj), who somehow doesn't fit into the equation of a mutually functioning marriage. A marriage of the local mafia working quietly with the undercover and corrupt police. Increasingly, despite initial resentment, they find they have a lot in common. They both want to change the meaning of their work, if their fight against crime has so far been going in vain. The film, directed and produced by Rudolf Biermann, casts Patrik "Rytmus" Vrbovský in the lead negative role, and Alexander Bárta, a native of Košice, in the role of the policeman Mika. The film's numerous extras and minor roles were played by more than three hundred non-professional film enthusiasts, who joined the shooting free of charge, for a symbolic euro or for an invitation to the preview screening. No other film has ever managed anything like it.
During the spring of 2023, filming took place on Železiarenská Street in the Košice- Šaca district. The Patkaň film pub was being shot in the premises near the ice cream parlour. The film was also being shot in a local private apartment with a terrace, and the scene of the night explosion of a car in the parking lot was also shot there. The entire city district, especially the street and its surroundings, was prepared for the shooting of the car explosion, so as not to be confused with the real crime. The detonation and the fire were filmed in the area in front of the apartment building at 22 Železiarenská Street. The several-hour night filming was an extraordinary social event for Šaca. One of the scenes was taken from the vicinity of the apartment building on Stromová Street. By the 1990s, the Main Street in Prešov near the Marian Sculpture and the Statue of Jesus, where the last period trolleybus in the service of the transport company is seen, also changed during the shooting of the film. The shooting also took place right at the local police station. Its exterior consisted of an office building in the centre of Spišská Nová Ves. In Banská Štiavnica, filming took place in the headquarters of the Slovak Mining Authority at Radničné square 16 and in the building of the Open-Air Mining Museum. The swimming pool where Miky swims was in fact the Štiavnica municipal swimming pool. The film was also shot in the wider center of Košice.
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Tomáš Galierik
