Where did this movie take place?
In the American version there is no telling of where the story takes place. It was obviously in Europe, western Europe more likely. Does anybody know for a fact?
shareA part of the movie, the car chase, jump over bridge and car going down the stairs was shot in Zagreb, Croatia. The stairs are from the main Zagreb's square and bridge is also the main bridge that conects the old and the new town in Zagreb.
shareThanks. Even though it was shot in Zagreb that still doesn't tell of where the plot was set. I think that Croatia was suppose to double for Spain.
shareAnother part of the movie was made in Austria. I know, because the car in which the men in the hoods flee in the beginning has an austrian license plate. And the castle in front of which Jackie meets Alan is Castle Schönbrunn in Vienna.
I think the rest of the movie is set in Italy, but they don't say so in the german version as well.
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Thanks but that still doesn't tell me where the story takes place. The locations could have been faked for another place.
shareI'm working on the cheesy dubbed version at the moment, and I think the European scenes are supposed to be set in Italy, but the background chatter is a mixture of English, Spanish and Italian; the camp waiter is French and he charges them in denarii for the three beers. So maybe it's set in ancient Rome. I'm pretty sure the auction at the start is supposed to be in Italy, anyway, as the guy dubbing the auctioneer is trying manfully to do an Italian accent.
sharePart of the movie plays in Slovenia.The castle at the end of the movie is called Predjamski Grad!
shareYes it was shot in couple of places called Motovun, Pazin, Buzet, Pula, Zagreb, and in Slovenia, the name escapes me now. The reason that I know is because I am one of the kids playing around my best friend is riding a bike on the old square in Motovun, right now Motovun hosts one of the more popular movie festivals in the region. I got the chance to meet Jackie and some of the other cast and got their autographs. I was 8 years old but I still remeber it like it was yesterday.
shareI'm not asking for where the it was shot, I'm asking for where the story was set, ficticiously. Why is that so hard for all you people to to understand!!?
shareE U R O P E ! ! !
Why is it so hard for you to understand? To chinese people all europeans look the same, and all of europe looks the same. To them it is enough to say that it was made in europe, and that the story takes place in europe. That's it. If it was of any consequence to producers, writers or anyone else it would have been said, and it's not, therefore it is irrelevant. When you watched "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was it important WHERE in China is story set? For the same reason "Rumble In The Bronx" was made on west coast and Bronx is probably on "the other one", but to people who live in China even Canada or Mexico would be close enough because they couldn't care less about the position of Bronx inside usa!
The sequel tells that it takes place in Spain through subtitles. I thought that probably a non-american version of the movie might say so too.
sharei don't remember exactly because i saw it ages ago, but i think first part also mentiones spain at some point but i don't remember if the whole story was in spain or just some part... but as i told you in the previous post, people that made this film couldn't have cared less about european geography and that is the reason why the film takes place on location widely known as "somewhere in europe". :) the european version doesn't contain anything more precise than the american one.
look at it from their point of wiev: looking from any other continent entire europe [minus russia] is a greasy smudge on the end of the map... and to make it worse it's all cut out into myriad small coutries each of them on their own less than irrelevant. saying that europe is a continent it is an insult to other continents. :) if i was you i'd go to china and ask first man on the street if he knew who napoleon or carl the great were. they'd probably try "rock musician" and then ask you if they guesed correctly. :)))
I presume that your comments about Europe were intended as tongue in cheek.
You can't possibly be serious about each country in Europe being irrelevant on it's own, can you? Europe may well be the smallest Continent, but to class it as a greasy smudge is pretty nieve. Europe has played a pretty big part in the development of the world as we know it today. I'll admit it's had a few hiccups along the way. But overall, I don't think we'd be exchanging views in this manner if Europe had not been "Europe"!
You forget all the things, you just do it!
I was just exagerating to make a point. ;)
I think he movie Kwai tsan tseh (1984) worked as a prequel of sorts to this one, and it was set in Spain.
So my best guess is that this movie was set in Spain as well, but production was cheaper in Austria and former Yugoslavia.
If this should be indeed the fact, they just made a mistake by having the waiter charge them in "denarii", as pabloquema put it, because the currency of Yugoslavia at the time was Dinar. The guy playing the waiter said "dinar" instead of "Pesetas" or whatever, but they either didn't notice the mistake, or they thought it was too expensive or it would be too much trouble to do this minor scene again.
Just my thouhgts.
Kwai Tsan Tseh is not a prequel, nor is it connected to this movie in story.
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