German locations can be seen on many Hollywood blockbusters, and there are many German towns that use them as the main film shooting locations for film screenings.
The Berlin Wall serves as a film backdrop
The German capital has a long history of filmmaking, dating back to classic films such as Walter Rutmann's Berlin: The Metropolitan Symphony and Winn's Wings of Desire. Franka Botante traversed the streets of the city across the streets of the city during her 1998 Run of Lola, crossed the Oberbaum Bridge, and then showed off her acting talents with Matt Damon in Bonn's Supremacy.
The original franchise of this genre had entered the German capital, and Roger Moore arrived in Berlin to shoot scenes for James Bond's Octopus, when the Iron Curtain was still in place. The Berlin Wall and checkpoint checkpoint crossings are also featured in the film.
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Director Florian Heinkel von Donnasmark revisits East German history in his Oscar-winning film The Lives of Others. Many of the scenes were filmed at the former headquarters of the Ministry of State Security in Berlin's Lichtenberg district, which is now home to the city of Berlin.
Located less than an hour outside Berlin, Babelsberg is an area in Potsdam, the capital of the German state of Brandenburg, and home to one of the oldest film studios in the world, hence the name. More than 3,000 films have been produced here for film and television, including Fritz Lang's Metropolis, the first full-length science fiction film ever made.
The list of directors who shot scenes in Babbersburg is a veritable film industry celebrity, including Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, Roland Emmerich, Wes Anderson, Steven Spielberg and the Wachowski couple, who used large film studios to shoot "Vendetta" and "Cloud Atlas" starring V. Harley Berry, Hugh Grant and Tom Hanks.
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Munich: Pilgrimage Church Viktuanlian Markt View
The Bavarian Film Company was originally founded in 1919 and is located in the south of Munich. Here was filmed "Das Boot", one of the most famous big-screen blockbusters that came out of Germany. Director Wolfgang Peterson and actor Jürgen Procchino filmed the fascinating scenes inside the U96 submarine, which later made a breakthrough in Hollywood.
Stars such as Dustin Hoffman and Alan Rickman filmed "Perfume" in Munich, and three-time Oscar-winning Oliver Stone traveled to the Bavarian capital to shoot Snow White, a film about whistleblower Edward Snowden, and the olympic stadium room was converted into a NSA Hawaiian outpost. Movie fans are invited to visit the Bavarian Studio site in Glenwald where they can admire the original props, models and even U96 sets. Unprecedented cinematic footage and costumes will come to life across more than a hundred years of filmmaking history.
Another small town in eastern Germany has a long tradition of filmmaking and has earned it a nickname inspired by America's own dream factory, Hollywood: Gallewood. Görlitz is located in Lusastianis on the Polish border in Saxony, on the eastern corner of the country. This historic town is one of the best-preserved in the whole of Central Europe, with buildings from many different eras standing proudly in the renovated Old Town.
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In fact, the producers of the "Grand Budapest Hotel" were so impressed with the town's Art Nouveau department store that they chose to use it as a backdrop for American comedy. Görlitz is germany's largest heritage reserve with 4,000 monuments and historic buildings, and has provided a filming location for more than 100 film productions since the 1950s.
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Görlitz: Church of St. Peter and Paul with the Neissebrücke Bridge
The filming of the adventure comedy "Around the World in Eighty Days" starring Jackie Chan made Görlitz a breakthrough and became a popular filming location. Kate Winslet filmed scenes in Goliz's Dimini Square, where she served as a tram conductor in The Reader, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Cult director Quentin Tarantino then decided to join Golewood in the operation and turned Untermarkt Market Square into the scene of a massacre in his film Shameless Bastards, starring Brad Pitt.
Castles and fortresses as backgrounds in the film
In fact, one of the finest cinematic works from Europe was born in Bavaria. The fortresses and castles in The Three Musketeers directed by Paul Anderson were originally created using CGI. But then the production team discovered the incredible 3D spectacle locations filmed by 3,500 actors in several Towns in Germany: the Marienberg Fortress in Würzburg, the Munich Apartments, the former palace of the Bavarian monarch and the Old Court dating back to the 11th century, in the town of Bamberg in the Upper Franconia district.
Eisenach: View of the inner courtyard of Wartburg
Movie fans will love it when the original setting used in a fictional movie scene has a rich history in the real world. The medieval Fortress of Coburg was indeed the case, and the Castle of Wartburg was indeed the home of the Reformers for a time in the movie Luther. The Budenbrooks House is another great example in Lübeck, where the film Budenbrooks was filmed and where Thomas Mann's grandparents lived. Thomas Mann won the Nobel Prize in Literature for the 1929 novel on which the film was based.