9 a.m.: Breakfast in the Café Odeon
in Addition to the flagship films like “Bäckerei Zürrer” or “Polizischt Wäckerli” wanted to address Kurt Early on with “Café Odeon” (1959), the Zurich environment and the meeting place for artists “Café Odeon”. The script was toned down to producer pressure. A visit to the historic Kafi on the Limmatquai 2 at the Bellevue is worth it but still.
10 p.m.: trip to the city house
The Restaurant dearly held in Zurich’s district 8 (hammer Strasse 44) is now history, but when Watching Rolf Lyssys smash hit, “The swissmakers”, 1978-beautiful memories of the home-style cooking at fair prices. A walk on the banks of the river Limmat and a trip to the town house be worthwhile for the purpose of Location Scouting today.
10.30 am: From the münster bridge to the Römerhof
In 1988, traveled from the “thorn birds”Star Richard Chamberlain to companies in person to Zürich to in the TV two-parter “The Bourne Identity” when Jason Bourne is a wild cut travel from Römerhof to the münster bridge.
11.30 am: “Exclusive” HB Zurich
Florian frog Mayer’s action-Thriller “Exclusive” (1999) combines several Züri-Locations: in Addition to the car chase in the Milchbuck Tunnel, there’s Action in the big hall of the main train station. And if the youth book-to-film adaptation “My Name is Eugen” (2005), “cloudburst”Director Michael Steiner plays primarily in Bern and the Ticino, there is also a wonderful side trip to Zurich from yesteryear. Well then: From the train in the direction of the airport.
11.45 am: looking at the hard bridge
years before his current hit movie “Zwingli” has Stefan Haupt with the youth ballad “Utopia Blues” (2001) delivered a strong directorial debut. The balancing act of starring Michael Finger on the Zurich Hardbrücke, you should not imitate it. However, the train journey continues.
11.50 am: live and Die in Zurich-Oerlikon
The friendship and death drama “Usfahrt Oerlike” (2015) with the now deceased Darstellerduo Jörg Schneider, Mathias Gnädinger plays in the North-West district of Oerlikon, where the train stops. Scenes in the market square, the view of the forest and last trips in the yellow convertible on the Thurgauerstrasse make the film adaptation of Thomas Hostettlers theatre in “Exit” to a film gem.
13 p.m.: Next Stop Zurich Airport
The Zurich Airport has long been to not only see in Michael Steiner’s Swissair-tribute to “Grounding”, but also in international film productions, from the East (Bollywood Movie “Aasambhav” with Priyanka Chopra, 2004) and West (“The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo” by David Fincher, 2011).
16 at: dusk in the City
And here we go back to the city center: the streets, only the Long-crime “Strähl” (2004), by the later “Papa Moll”-filmmaker Manuel Flurin Hendry, but also the Christmas prostitute drama “dream country” (2013) show the city from a different side. The Sihlquai and the long road are now “adult”. And the dusk at the military/long-road a secret.
19 a.m.: a Lot of low-village-Theater am Neumarkt
in 1948, the gay organisation “The circle” (2014), in Zurich’s Niederdorf, a Mietlokal in the building of the theatre at the Neumarkt. A Club where the “Homophile” is met, the exchange of ideas fostered and acquaintances included. Stefan Haupt’s docu-drama “The circle” makes the time period on film skillfully resurgence. And today, the Theater am Neumarkt offers a broad cultural program.
22 PM: nightcap “Tschäss”-Moods
With his music film “Tschäss” (1994) deals with Daniel Helfer, the beginnings of the local Jazz scene. Wicked jazz club scenes in the Zurich Working-class neighborhood of the 1950s contribute significantly to the mood. The nostalgia of the cinema of the Uto (lime wide road 3) gives the film a pure enjoyment. See also the Rämistrasse, the barracks and the great Cathedral square.
want more Züri-film locations? – Historian, film expert and Stonologe Felix Aeppli has collected numerous titles of 1907-2017.
(Mohan Mani/travel content)
Created: 26.03.2019, 15:50 PM
