Film Set

Hotel Zoo Berlin on Kurfürstendamm in Charlottenburg is Berlin's elegant answer to the design boutique hotel: an 1891 Gründerzeit building, reinterpreted by US designer Dayna Lee, with 141 rooms, a legendary bar, and a rooftop terrace that showcases Berlin's rooftops on one level.

Beneath the intersection at the ICC lies a pedestrian tunnel from the seventies with orange tiles, round columns, and cylindrical ceiling lights, which has never been modernized. Production teams book it more frequently than the Brandenburg Gate or the Reichstag, from The Bourne Conspiracy to Hanna and Don to Atomic Blonde.

On 16 hectares in Falkenberg, there is a complex made of exposed concrete with over two hundred individually shaped round columns, large water features, and a circular outdoor area of approximately 210 meters in diameter, housing fifteen dog pavilions. Dietrich Bangert designed it, and productions like Aeon Flux use it as ready-made futuristic architecture.

In the Ehrenhof on Stauffenbergstraße, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators planned the assassination attempt on Hitler, and here they were shot the very same night after its failure. Admission, public tours and the audio guide of the German Resistance Memorial Center are free, and scenes for Operation Valkyrie were filmed here.

Two Neo-Gothic brick towers, the yellow U1 train on the upper level, and the Spree river below form one of Berlin's most iconic cityscapes, with the East Side Gallery and the Spree riverbank right next door. The bridge became famous through Run Lola Run, and since then it has been a staple when a shot needs to be immediately recognizable as Berlin.

Deep in the southeast of Berlin, on the Adlershof Media Campus, film history is stored across more than 4,000 square meters. For decades, Adlershofer Fundus has been the go-to address for commercial productions seeking historically accurate costumes and props, from GDR television heritage to international series productions.

The World Clock, TV Tower, and the panel buildings of late GDR modernism form one backdrop above, while the tunnels and platforms below form another, which can be cordoned off and illuminated. Filming took place here for Good Bye Lenin, Flightplan, The Bourne Ultimatum, and Babylon Berlin, and the square is connected like almost no other.

Rum-soaked sugar cones and the classic film "Die Feuerzangenbowle" (The Fire-Tongs Punch) are the focus of the atmospheric Winter Film Festival in the Nikolaiviertel in Berlin-Mitte.

At Hardenbergplatz in Charlottenburg, S-Bahn, U2 and U9 lines, regional trains, and a large bus station converge, along with the Zoo with its Elephant Gate, Kurfürstendamm, and Bikini-Haus. The station became famous through Christiane F., for which filming took place in and around the building in 1981, partly with amateur actors from the area.

One of Brandenburg's best-preserved medieval castles is enthroned in the Hoher Fläming Nature Park southwest of Berlin: Rabenstein Castle in the district of the same name, Rabenstein/Fläming, combines medieval architecture, lively castle tours, and an active falconry to create an excursion destination where history truly comes alive.

A prefabricated building in Friedrichshain, not far from Ostbahnhof, where Paul lives in The Legend of Paul and Paula, the cult film by DEFA from 1973. Opposite was Paula's old building, which today houses a supermarket, and on Rummelsburger See are the Paul-and-Paula-Ufer along with the bench for lovers, where the scene with the freight barge was filmed.