The American movie Cold Mountain was shot in Transylvania in 2003. Shooting in Romania caused the locals many headaches but they might have been compensated by the fact that they hosted the greatest stars of Hollywood. Meanwhile shooting, among others, a 16 m deep and 27 m wide pit was dug and several hundreds of soldiers marched next to a village to faithfully illustrate the contemporary battle scenes. Also, 4,000 l fuel and other pyrotechnic tools were used for the sake of making it lifelike. At another scene, a village made up of 32...