The Bourne Supremacy filming locations
Film locations: Germany; India; Russia; Italy; New York
Since the end of the first movie, Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) and Marie (Franka Potente) have dropped off the grid, and are lying low in Goa, India. This long-time hippie beach paradise on the west coast of India still carries signs of its many years under Portuguese rule.
Bourneís hideaway is on the isolated white sand Palolem Beach, about 3km from Canacona railway junction in southern Goa. If you want more luxury ñ youíre not on a budget ñ stay, like Matt Damon, at the Intercontinental Grand Resort Goa, Raj Baga, Canacona (tel: 91.832.266.7777).
The market town, though, is not as close as it appears. Itís the Goan capital, Panaji (previously Panjim), way to the north of Goa, where hired killer Kirill (Karl Urban) tries to trace Bourne at the ëtelegraph officeí: the Communidade Building on Church Square. He chases Bourneís Suzuki Gypsy through the old Fontainhas Heritage Precinct and Candolim, before it plunges off the Nerul Bridge into the River Nerul. Still craving that movie star experience? The starís hotel here was the Taj Fort Aguada Beach Resort, Sinquerim (& 91.832.564.5858).
The rest of the film flits between Germany, Italy, Russia and the Netherlands, but most of it was filmed in Berlin.
The deal set up to flush out a CIA mole, sabotaged by Kirill to frame Jason Bourne, is at Kantstrasse/Hardenbergstrasse, alongside Zoologischer Garten Station. Kirill reports to his control, Yuri, at Motel Avus, Halenseestrasse 51, Halensee (& 030.30.10.570), at the end of the famous Avus racetrack opposite the ICC, the International Congress Centre.
As Bourne returns to Europe, thereís the briefest glimpse of the real Naples harbour (courtesy of a seaborne second unit), but the ëStazione Marittima di Napolií, the Italian customs office at which Bourne is held, is the Eingangsbereich Nord building of Messe Berlin, the northern entrance to the Berlin Exhibition Grounds, Messedamm 22.
Likewise, although thereís an establishing shot of Moscowís Sheremetyevo International Airport as Kirill arrives in Russia, his meeting with Yuri was filmed in the parking area beneath the ICC, part of the same complex.
When Ward Abbott (Brian Cox) travels to ëAmsterdamí to find Nicky (Julia Stiles), itís in Berlin ñ on Walter-Benjamin-Platz ñ that he contacts her. And the flight back to Berlinís Templehof Airport must be the shortest on film, since it also begins at Templehof, is standing in for ëAmsterdamí. By now it should come as no surprise that the ëMunichí house of Jarda, the other remaining Treadstone operative, is also Berlin, on Kaiserstrasse, in the Wannsee district.
Bourne arrives in Berlin at Ostbahnhof, one of east Berlinís two major termini, and takes a cab into the city, crossing the elaborately turretted Oberbaum Bridge (a quick homage to Run, Lola, Run, which starred Franka Potente). He tracks US agent Pamela Landy (Joan Allen) to the Westin Grand Berlin, Friedrichstrasse 158-164 (& 030.2027.0; www.westin-grand.com), and tails her to the CIA hub, which is an empty office block on Karl-Liebknecht Allee.
Setting up a meeting with Nicky under the World Clock (Weltzeituhr) in Alexanderplatz, Bourne takes evasive action amid a student demo Donít make plans quite yet to check in to the ëHotel Brecker, Kurfurstendamm 288í, where Bourne begins to remember his disastrous first mission ñ to kill Russian politician Neski. Although thereís no such hotel, there are plans to turn the location used, Haus Cumberland, Kurfurstendamm 193, into a luxury hotel.
As the police arrive, Bourne makes his escape on foot. The police motorbike crashes into a taxi on Kantstrasse. Bourne depends on the precision of the Berlin railway system to make his escape on S-Bahnhof Friedrichstrasse (try that one in London), leaping onto a boat from tthe Friedrichstrasse Bridge over the Spree.
Bourne takes the train to Moscow, arriving at Moscow Kievskiai rail station (the real thing, which serves the Ukraine), but the ëMoscowí disco, where Yuri finds Kirill to inform him that Bourne is still alive, is the, now closed, Cafe Moskau, Karl Marx Allee 34 (part of the Kino International complex) in Berlin.
The ëMoscowí street where Bourne looks for Neskiís daughter is Scharrenstrasse, south of Alexanderplatz in Spittelmarkt. The police arrive on Friedrichsgracht, and Kirill is temporarily arrested on Spittelmarkt at Leipziger Strasse.
Part of the subsequent car chase is indeed Moscow, but much was still Berlin, in the suburb of Potsdam, and on Karl Marx Allee, which was covered in snow. The final crash is at the Potsdamer Platz exit to Berlinís Tiergarten Tunnel.
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The Bourne Supremacy, 2004
Director
Cast
- Matt Damon
- Franka Potente
- Chris Cooper
- Clive Owen
- Brian Cox
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Trivia
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