🏙 Towns & cities
Kraków
capital city of Lesser Poland Voivodeship in southern Poland
🇵🇱 Poland · 50.0614, 19.9372
Kraków is recorded as a filming location for 36 productions. Wikidata records these shoots at town level — somewhere in Kraków, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 2 more.
1 production was filmed at 1 place inside Kraków rather than at Kraków itself — listed below, each with the place it was shot.
“The film was shot at locations including Clermont-Ferrand, Kraków and Paris.”
Movies and TV series filmed in Kraków
- Schindler's List 1993
- The Grand Budapest Hotel 2014
- Katyń 2007
- The Double Life of Véronique 1991
- Man of Marble 1977
- With Fire and Sword 1999
- The Deluge 1974
- Camera Buff 1979
- September Eleven 1683 2012
- Nights and Days 1975
- Edges of the Lord 2001
- Colonel Wolodyjowski 1969
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The Calm
1980
“The Calm was filmed on location in Kraków and completed in 1976, but was banned by the state because of its subject matter—strikes were illegal in Poland during that time.” Wikipedia
- 33 Scenes from Life 2008
- How to Be Loved 1963
- Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease 2000
- Karol: A Man Who Became Pope 2005
- Bad Luck 1960
- The Karamazovs 2008
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Vinci
2004
“Most of the filming was done in Kraków, where the movie is set.” Wikipedia
- Pope John Paul II 2005–
- The Jeweller's Shop 1988
- The silent touch 1992
- The Mighty Angel 2014
- Kazimierz Wielki 1976
- To Save the City 1976
- Wodzirej 1978
- Hero of the Year 1987
- The Birch-Tree Meadow 2003
- Kalosze szczęścia 1958
- Jowita 1967
- From a Far Country 1981
- Dama kameliowa 1995
- Popieluszko: Freedom Is Within Us 2009
- Cracow Monsters 2022–
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The Eastern Gate
2025–
“The first season was shot in and around Gliwice, Sosnowiec, Katowice, Kraków, Zakopane, and Warsaw.” Wikipedia
Filmed here, per Wikipedia
Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Kraków 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.
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365 Days
2020
“The film scenes were primarily shot in Poland (Warsaw, Kraków and Niepołomice) and in Italy (Sanremo).” Wikipedia
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The Eternal Jew
1940
“In October and November 1939, almost immediately after the German-Soviet invasion of Poland, he instructed Hippler to send camera crews to Łódź, Warsaw, Kraków and Lublin to shoot footage of Polish Jews.” Wikipedia
Movies and TV series filmed elsewhere in Kraków
1 production shot at 1 place inside Kraków, each named beside it. Separate from the list above, which is what Wikidata records against Kraków itself.
Filming locations nearby
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Olkusz
🇵🇱 Poland
city of Poland
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Niepołomice
🇵🇱 Poland
city of Poland
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Kraków-Częstochowa Upland
🇵🇱 Poland
upland mountains of Poland
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Błędów Desert
🇵🇱 Poland
desert, protected area, south Poland
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🏙 Towns & cities
Nowa Huta
🇵🇱 Poland
easternmost district of Kraków, Poland
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🌍 Countries & regions
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
historical multinational monarchist state in Eastern Europe (Crown of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania)
Frequently asked questions
What was filmed in Kraków?
39 productions are recorded as filmed in Kraków, 1 of them at places inside it, including Schindler's List (1993), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) and Katyń (2007). 2 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.
Which is the best known production filmed in Kraków?
Schindler's List (1993), covered by 102 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.
Where is Kraków?
Kraków is in Poland, at 50.0614, 19.9372. The day trip guide for Kraków lists 37 filming locations within 100 km.
What other filming locations are near Kraków?
Olkusz, Niepołomice, Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, Błędów Desert 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 XEvansGambitx, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Planning a visit? Filming locations near Kraków — 37 places within 100 km, with distances and directions.