"I still thought, 'yes, the looks like this Hollywood actress, such as it is called yet?" - And then wrote, "I seen the film team ..." - Scott Haynes remembers that day in July, as Scarlett Johansson on his bike hire in the middle of Old Town vorbeischlenderte. Actually, they seemed quite inconspicuous, he says, if these people do not always cluster would have stuck behind her. Whenever Johansson by Barcelona moved, usually a Puschelmikrofon floated above her head, the camera ran around front and zealous film technicians, security and other helpers helpers.
Only at the moment Haynes got really what the newspapers have been days wrote: That's Woody Allen film project and the beach promenade of Barcelona were in motion, that the Casa Mila and to Sagrada FamÃlia church temporarily blocked were two of the most famous monuments from António Gaudà that a really great movie in the city. Exactly where is Otto and Ottilie normal tourist move: They had but mostly behind the barriers remain, but were very close on events and pursued it with their cell phone cameras.
They strolled Johansson, Woody Allen conducted here under its Anglerhut. And the Spanish international stars Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem were never far away - the other two performers of the amorous triangle story in "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" in which two U.S. tourists to take a Spanish couple. The secret key role to play but Barcelona: The film introduces many of the famous and picturesque corners of the metropolis.
Barcelona is increasingly popular as a filming location
Indeed, quite explicitly wanted to Woody Allen put a monument, wants the city - as only New York - with his eyes show: "This film is a love letter to Barcelona and from there to the rest of the world." The director is not alone in his enthusiasm for the Catalan metropolis, with its many facets. Barcelona is increasingly popular as a filming location, reported the local Film Commission: Alone in the previous year arose here about 40 movies, plus numerous television and advertising strip clips.
Although some grumble about Barcelone, when they once again have to drive detours or transactions are not accessible. But for visitors, the chances are not bad, that she not only in the next film will recognize the surroundings, but perhaps even up to date on current filming encounter. Sometimes they are even as extras here.
Barcelona is very popular for film shoots, from ancient times to act. Almost the entire film "Perfume" by Tom Tykwer in 2006 came to the cinema, originated here. The team had permission to use the quaint winding streets and squares with a great deal of dirt into medieval Paris to transform. The really beautifully restored Plaza de la Mercè became a fish market, the "dirtiest spot in the dirtiest city in Europe in the 18th century." If you look closely, recognizes the church walls in the film again. But all newer facades, electric cables or other modern details disappeared behind large sheets, while the film team on the ground two and a half tonnes of fish and a ton of meat distributed.
Officially approved Luftverpestung
"After 'now has its very real gestunken," says the French Catalan Josep, there often on the edge of a fountain sits. And it was the Luftverpestung Authority - Barcelona's mayor gave full support for days and put all streets and squares in the old quarter Barri gòtic available.
"That would be in Munich with closures of Marienplatz, the Kaufingerstrasse and the Viktualienmarkt comparable," told the "perfume" production manager Christine Rothe. In search of the girl mirabelle runs later murderer Jean-Baptiste Grenouille by Carrer del Bisbe to the Plaça de Sant Felip Neri, where he stands, the same simple fountain between the big trees like in the movie. Only he is now surrounded by cycling tourists and their guides.
Carrer de Ferran, full of tourists, is still a busy shopping street - there appeared Grenouille for the first time in the fascinating world of the city smells one. In Laberint d'Horta in the northwest of the town played the beautiful Laura and their guests hiding deadly game. And in the museum village Poble Espanyol in the mountain town, the Montjuïc, was the great final scene, in which instead of the execution Massenekstase developed. "I had the best time of my life, when we were in Barcelona and Catalonia turned," says director Tom Tykwer.
Penélope Cruz ever filmed in Barcelona
The port area, a quarter of an hour to walk, are better suited for the cinema of contemporary issues. Xavier Rousseau has spent a lot of scenes, the protagonist in Studentenhit "Barcelona for a year" (2003) by Cédric Klapisch. The Frenchman shows the city from the perspective of a colorful WG Erasmus students. On the same beach, the Scarlett Johannsson erschlenderte, Xavier sat in the cafe and wrote home.
The Clinic Hospital del Mar also appears because of the great outlook on sand, sea and palm trees in other movies ever again. Also in Pedro Almodovar's "All About My Mother" (1999), the good parts played in Barcelona. One of the actresses: Penélope Cruz, which is now nearly a decade later, some filming locations should have recognized. Around the still unfinished cathedral built Gaudà Sagrada FamÃlia, which also climbed Xavier, or the Montjuic Park.
"Barcelona was incredibly interesting, it is an absolutely mystical city," enthuses Klapisch. Directors and the city seem to have found: "There is sun, sea and a director very much interesting because it is extremely vivid." Cult director Almodovar is the same opinion, he has repeatedly shot here: "Barcelona is also Marseille, Naples and Havana, all at once."
Almost directly on the water are also subject to the narrow streets of Barceloneta - the old quarter of the fishermen and seamen, which, like a triangle into the Mediterranean hineinragt. Next door shines the old port area, the Port Vell, in a modern sheen. In the seventies gammelte it slowly down the turnaround was only the supplement for the Olympic Games in summer 1992. And so today, actor look like tourists through a dense forest masts fast sailboats on the futuristic Maremagnum shopping mall in the middle of the harbor.
Almost like in the movie
In dizzy height varies in thick cables, across the harbor, probably the slowest transport of the city: the red of the gondolas Transbordador Aeri. While Xavier in the film as the Montjuïc over rocks, he learns a lot about women and about love. Always with the view of the sea. That the city was opened there, is ultimately the merit of the Olympic Games.
Previously, only the coastal precipitous and rocky, the people had driven out to the country, and the most expensive homes were far away from water. Today retreating to around four kilometers aufgeschütteter sandy beach with generous along the Mediterranean seafront. The most exclusive apartments are quite ahead with lake view. One of the two skyscrapers houses a luxury hotel.
But the beach it is for everybody. For the children kick question, the swimmers and sunbathers, the cracks in the sport kite. On a platform is a multicultural band with a tuba and fascinated with her rhythm of the passers-by. Today, while Scarlett elsewhere saunters long, colorful life rages in the sun and palm trees, almost in the middle of town - almost like in the movie.
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