The film “Missing” by director Costa Gravas and starring Jack Lemmon went on revealing the cruel dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile. In one of the main scenes, he goes into the Metropolitan Stadium in Santiago de Chile, which was the first torture center of the dictatorship where political militants were collected as in a concentration camp
FEEL THE “GLADIATOR” AT THE COLISEUM IN ROME
Russel Crowe’s character “Gladiator” fighting against all kind of creatures and beasts at the Coliseum in Rome, to gain the heart of the crowd and of worldwide audiences.
EXPLORE VISCONTI’S MASTERPIECE “LUDWIG” AT THE HERRENCHIEMSEE PALACE IN BAVARIA, GERMANY.
The Herrenchiemsee Royal Complex is located in the island of Herreninsel in the Bavarian Lake of Chiemsee, about 50 km from Munich. The area was used by Italian filmmaker Luchino Visconti in 1972 to recreate the life of Ludwig II, King of Bavaria.
THE INSPECTOR AND THE PANTHER THAT MADE US LAUGH FOR DECADES STARTED IN THIS SKI RESORT IN ITALY IN 1964
The Skiing Resort of Cortina D’ampezzo in Italy was the set for the first Pink Panther movie where Peter Sellers played the hilarious role of Inspector Jacques Clouseau.
THE CITY THAT MADE STEVEN SODERBERGH FAMOUS: BATON ROUGE
Baton Rouge, the capital of the US state of Lousiana, made Steven Soderbergh famous, after his movie “Sex, Lies and Videotape” won the Cannes Festival main award, the “Palme D’Or” in 1989.
BEWARE OF DINOSAURS MOVING AT THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATIONAL HISTORY IN NEW YORK
Like in Ben Stiller’s movie “A night at the Museum”, you can have your own fascinating experience at the Central Park-located American Museum of National History.
Just make sure you don’t get eaten by a tyrannosaurus!
JUMPING TO PARADISE: “THELMA AND LOUISE”
The famous scene from Thelma and Louise in the car jumping, was shot at the Dead Horse Point Park in Utah, where incredibly beautiful combinations or rock and the Colorado river create the magic of the moment.
SPEND YOUR “MIDNIGHT IN PARIS” FLYING BACK IN TIME TO THE BELLE EPOQUE IN “MAXIM’S”
The Maxim’s Cafe was the scene of many parts of 2011 fantasy Woody Allen’s movie “Midnight in Paris” where Owen Wilson’s character of a writer takes his nostalgic feelings and flies back in time to the Belle Epoque to meet writers and philosophers of that era…and new love.
VISIT MAXIM’S CAFE AT RUE ROYALE IN PARIS TO GET TO THAT EPOQUE (ERA) TOO..
RUN INSIDE THE MEMORIES OF A GEISHA IN KYOTO
The Gates to the Fushimi Inari Shrine in Kyoto, Japan is one of the few Japanese locations seen at the “Memoirs of a Geisha” movie. In one of its most moving scenes, the young Geisha runs outside of the shrine happy and hopeful after seeing the Chairman character for the first time.
WHEN DUSTIN HOFFMAN BECAME A WOMAN AND NEW YORK BECAME RUSSIAN
The traditional Russian Tea Room in New York was the scene of many movies filmed in New York. Among them, the film “Tootsie” when Dustin Hoffman performed a man becoming a woman to succeed in the show business. In the scene with movie actor/director Sidney Pollack at the Russian Tea Room.
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