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Hamburg

city and state in the North of Germany

🇩🇪 Germany · 53.5500, 10.0000

Hamburg is recorded as a filming location for 6 productions. Wikidata records these shoots at town level — somewhere in Hamburg, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 11 more. 1 video game is also set here.

3 productions were filmed at 9 places inside Hamburg rather than at Hamburg itself — listed below, each with the place it was shot.

“The film A Most Wanted Man was set in and filmed in Hamburg.”

A Most Wanted Man (2014) · Wikipedia

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Movies filmed in Hamburg

Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Hamburg as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than the statements above, so it gets its own list — each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.

The Zone of Interest 2023
“The sounds of drunken Auschwitz guards were sourced at the Reeperbahn in Hamburg.” Wikipedia
Bend It Like Beckham 2002
“A variety of locations around London and Shepperton Studios, Surrey, were used for the nine-week shoot, with the semi-final taking place over a three-day period in Hamburg, Germany.” Wikipedia
Hanna 2011
Only Lovers Left Alive 2013
The Bridge at Remagen 1969
The Edge of Heaven 2007
The Odessa File 1974
“Filming was done on location in Hamburg, Heidelberg, and Munich, West Germany and Salzburg, Austria; at Pinewood Studios, England; and the Bavaria Studios in Grünwald, Bavaria, West Germany.” Wikipedia
The Burglars 1971
“The film was originally going to be filmed in Hamburg, with Verneuil opting to film in Greece instead.” Wikipedia
$ 1971
“The building depicted as the exterior of the bank was actually the Kunsthalle, Hamburg's principal museum of art.” Wikipedia
Despair 1978
The Church 1989
“Exteriors were filmed on-location in Budapest and Hamburg.” Wikipedia

Movies filmed elsewhere in Hamburg

3 productions shot at 9 places inside Hamburg, each named beside it. Separate from the list above, which is what Wikidata records against Hamburg itself.

Charlie's Angels Elbphilharmonie 2019
In the Fade Alsterdorf per Wikipedia 2017
The Phoenician Scheme Hamburger Kunsthalle per Wikipedia 2025

Set here

Video games that take place here. A game is filmed nowhere, so this is where the story is set rather than where a camera stood — a different claim from everything above, and kept under its own heading for that reason.

SimCity

Filming locations nearby

Frequently asked questions

What was filmed in Hamburg?

20 productions are recorded as filmed in Hamburg, 3 of them at places inside it, including Soul Kitchen (2009), A Most Wanted Man (2014) and The Teachers' Lounge (2023). 11 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.

Which is the best known production filmed in Hamburg?

Soul Kitchen (2009), covered by 27 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.

Where is Hamburg?

Hamburg is in Germany, at 53.5500, 10.0000. The day trip guide for Hamburg lists 15 filming locations within 100 km.

What other filming locations are near Hamburg?

Lauenburg/Elbe, Reeperbahn, Köhlbrand Bridge, Elbphilharmonie and 2 more, all within about 40 km and listed on this page.

Where does this information come from?

Filming location statements on Wikidata, joined to the place's coordinates and Wikipedia article, plus places named in Wikipedia articles, which are labelled per Wikipedia wherever they appear. The photograph is from Wikimedia Commons, by kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Planning a visit? Filming locations near Hamburg — 15 places within 100 km, with distances and directions.