[HIGHLIGHTS] The secrets of the “crazy cemetery” in Prague, the gloomy setting of Amadeus, the film about Mozart

The necropolis has some 4,200 burials. Founded more than a century ago to accommodate deceased patients from the Bohnice psychiatric hospital.

It was chosen by the American director of Czech origin Milos Forman to film the burial of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in his film “Amadeus” (1984) Margaret Thatcher visited the cemetery in 1990 to bring home the remains of a British pilot shot down at the end of World War II. In the 1980s, police discovered a satanic ritual in the cemetery.