PRAGUE - Mega-celebrity couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have taken up temporary residency in the Czech capital, and the paparazzi couldn't be happier.

They were mobbed on Friday when they showed up at their five-year-old son Maddox's French pre-school, witnesses said.

According to one tabloid, Jolie has become so frustrated with photographers during her stay that she declared the Czech Republic "dreadful."

"I don't care if it costs me a billion dollars, I'm not staying here. Even in Africa it wasn't this bad," Jolie said as paparazzi shot photos of her daughter Shiloh, according to Blesk tabloid.

Jolie is in Prague until the end of the month for the filming of "Wanted," a comic book adaptation. Pitt has joined her and is taking care of their four children, while preparing to take a course in helicopter piloting, according to Blesk.

- AFP /ls