The Bourne supremacy, 2004
Director
Cast
visit the film locations
Flights: Tegel, Tempelhof and Brandenburg
Westin Grand, Friedrichstrasse 158-164, Berlin 10117 (tel: 49.30.20270)
Motel Avus, Halenseestrasse 51, Halensee (Subway: U Kaiserdamm, Line 2) (tel: 30.30.10570)
Trivia
Alexanderplatz found literary fame through the 1929 novel Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin (adapted by Rainer Werner Fassbinder into a hugely successful TV series in 1980), but was almost totally destroyed during WWII. It was rebuilt in the late 60s, and in 1969 the World Clock was added.
The Bourne Supremacy filming location: Bourne takes evasive action on Alexanderplatz, Berlin
Photograph: Oliver Mantel
Setting up a meeting with Nicky under the World Clock (Weltzeituhr) in Alexanderplatz, Bourne takes evasive action amid a student demo.
The Bourne Supremacy filming location: Jason Bourne’s first mission: Haus Cumberland, Kurfurstendamm 193, Berlin
Photograph: Oliver Mantel
Don’t make plans quite yet to check in to the ‘Hotel Brecker, Kurfurstendamm 288’, where Bourne begins to remember his disastrous first mission – to kill Russian politician Neski. Although there’s no such hotel, there are plans to turn the location used, Haus Cumberland, Kurfurstendamm 193, into a luxury hotel (some time in 2010).
The Bourne Supremacy filming location: Bourne escapes from the police: S-Bahnhof Friedrichstrasse, Berlin
Photograph: Oliver Mantel
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 trick in London)...
The Bourne Supremacy filming location: Jason Bourne leaps into a boat on the Spree: Friedrichstrasse Bridge, Berlin
Photograph: Oliver Mantel
...before making a getaway by leaping onto a boat from the Friedrichstrasse Bridge over the Spree.
The Bourne Supremacy filming location:‘Moscow’ disco: Cafe Moskau, Karl Marx Allee, Berlin
Photograph: Oliver Mantel
Bourne takes the train to Moscow, arriving at Moscow Kievskiai rail station (the real thing, which serves the Ukraine), but the ‘Moscow’ 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, yes, Berlin.
The Bourne Supremacy filming location: Bourne looks for Neski’s daughter in ‘Moscow’: Scharrenstrasse, Berlin
Photograph: Oliver Mantel
The ‘Moscow’ street where Bourne looks for Neski’s daughter is Scharrenstrasse, south of Alexanderplatz in Spittelmarkt. The police arrive on Friedrichsgracht, and Kirill is temporarily arrested on Spittelmarkt at Leipziger Strasse.
The Bourne Supremacy filming location Kirill is arrested: Spittelmarkt, Berlin
Photograph: Oliver Mantel
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 Berlin’s Tiergarten Tunnel.
• Many thanks to Oliver Mantel for help with this section.
