Notes:
First started by Rolf Hammerschmidt ca. 1999, as a prestige line in the Man's Best empire, meant to compete with Bel Ami on the North American market (indeed, the interchanging of models in the first Triumvirate releases is impossible to miss), Triumvirate Productions became Dan Komar's thing once Rolf Hammerschmidt had been arrested in France in the summer of 2001 (on the set of what would have been Hungry for Love Part 2 and which was eventually released as newly-created Hammer Entertainment's Summer Dreams in 2005). From Florida, Komar had been in charge of Proof on File, the North American marketing/distributing branch of Man's Best, since he'd come to Hammerschmidt with the idea for that project in 1996. With Hammerschmidt out of the picture for a while, Komar set about making Triumvirate a significant player in "Europorn" by ensuring the collaboration of Vlado Iresch's AVI Production, which by that point had become the most important Czech provider of films for Man's Best. Between 2002 and 2004, AVI Production made a number of films for Komar while continuing their work for Man's Best, which had passed from German to Danish hands at some point in 2002-2003. Following in Hammerschmidt's footsteps, Komar started new labels or lines (which he called studios: Au Natural Productions, Reality Czech Productions, DKJ Productions, Video 69, Just Teens Productions) to gloss over the fact he was almost entirely relying on AVI Production's output and Iresch's work. Komar's typically hands-on approach (by contrast with Hammerschmidt's more laidback and respectful attitude) meant that, beside his trips to Riga, he often visited Prague and tried to get involved with the creative process at AVI, whether casting, writing or actually directing. This came to be increasingly resented by Iresch and his business partner Z. Ralcimge, who were thus quite open and willing when overtures were made to them by the bosses of Eurocreme/KFEX to drop Komar and work for the Anglo-Dutch concern in their attempted conquest of the European twink porn market. (Iresch had already switched to bareback porn under Komar's guidance, in Triumvirate films distributed by... KFEX.) Without AVI Production's professional work, Komar's business soon collapsed, in spite of his frantic efforts to master the use of a video camera. Triumvirate's final films were released in 2006. Komar continued for a while to work out of Prague, making Internet episodes for a number of websites. He was the central character (along with Aaron Hawke) in Markku Heikkinen's new documentary about gay porn in Prague: All Boys.
