Willy Wonka movie was filmed in Munich

[Carm 74]

 

Actually, Rothenburg is generally thought to have been used in the 1971 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory film - the mediaeval town that's flown across at the end. According to Wikipedia, it's actually nearby Nördlingen though.

It was also used for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang with Dick van Dyke, as was Neuschwanstein castle.

[gideon 137]

 

Needless to say, it might go some ways to reconfirm Dahls reputation as Grumpy Old Man par excellence.

Oh poor guy! I would have been grumpy too if they'd destroyed your book by making it into a terrible film with a completely different ending and feeling. Most of his ideas for the books came from stories he'd made up for his children, so I guess it must have personaly hurt him to see that happen. He was also probably grumpy because he had massive difficulties with his back, a war wound from crash landing his hurracane, which meant he could rarley sit down without being in pain.

 

Still I just finished reading "Danny the Champion of the World" to my son, same as my mum did to me 30 years ago, and he loved it! What a beautiful legacy to leave!

[LucyK 2]

 

I don't know about you, but my estimation of Munich has increased exponentially since I've come to realize that I live in the city where Charlie & the Chocolate Factory became reality.

This has got to be my favourite post of the day. Partly because I was brought up on the Roald Dahl stories and am a big fan, but mainly because of the use of word 'exponentially'.

Fantastic word!!

[HartlepoolLad 1]

 

The exterior to the Wonka factory, for example, is in fact the Munich gasworks, located on Dachauerstrasse.

Is that the Stadtwerke building or another? Where exactly is it?

[Punchbear 1,024]

That's a good one, IMDB is non-specific, according to this site, Munich had 4 gasworks, one of which is located opposite Westfriedhof at Dachauerstrasse 148, the Stadtwerk. Or maybe not anymore as according to these lads, they demolished a gasworks in Munich in 2002, but don't say which one. This company here performed hazardous waste disposal from the works at Dachauerstrasse in March 2001, "Entsorgung von hochkontaminiertem Material aus der Sanierungsmaßnahme eines Gaswerks". The gasworks at Moosach was also demolished, relatively recently, in 2005. It may be that the gasworks used in Willy Wonka has unfortunately already been demolished.

 

 

Think I'll have to take the 20 out to have a look-see.

[Nosey Flynn 1]

The gaswerke is still there, including some of the buildings & clocktower. I found it last week. Officially the building's called the "SWM Versorgungs GmbH", located on Emmy-Noether-Str. 10. It's a 2-minute walk from the Westfriedhof cemetery.

http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z273/wonkakid/Wonka.jpg

 

Some die hard put up a short vid of their visit to the factory, too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maMp6W4sXBU

[ThePigsInBlankets 24]

Oh. My. God. As I work under contract for Stadtwerke München I have an office there. I haven't seen Willy Wonka in ages and it never occurred to me during the last two years that I was actually working at site of the Wonka Candy Company!

 

My mind is officially blown. I mean seriously. This is insane.

 

Note: SWM Versongung is but one division of the company housed there.

[UrbanAngel 445]

Post a pic!

[ThePigsInBlankets 24]

Very well...

 

That's an old pic (from 2006) as there's now another building on the lot where the crane is.

 

Should be said that I've decided to take another offer so my work there will be ending shortly, but I'm glad I found this out...

[doradoblue 0]

more about the Great Escape.

The prison camp itself was built on a lot just outside the Bavaria Studios in Grunwald. The producers had to get special permission from the Bavarian government to cut down some trees in order to fit the camp into the area. Permission was granted with the agreement that the trees would be replanted when shooting (in 1962 I believe) was completed. I'm told the Mirisch Corporation made good on the promise.

The railway sequence (when David McCallum's character was shot) was filmed at a disused train station in Grunwald. They had to find a train station without electric wires (trains in that era were steam driven). I'm told the engine had to be transported down from Northern Germany.

The outsiide shooting for the most part took place at Starnbergersee including the famous Steve McQueen motorcycle acrobatics.

 

Also shot at Bavaria was the James Cagney/Billy Wilder film "One, Two, Three" in 1961

[DenneaB 0]

 

[floatright][/floatright] The city in the final aerial shot of the glass elevator leaving the factory is Munich, with the Frauenkirche patently visible.

Small Town Boy's right, the aerial view is Nördlingen, Germany. The church in the shot only has one tower, and no green top.

 

 

The picture is from Wikipedia - Nordlingen aerial screenshot.jpg (Wikipedia)

[Punchbear 1,024]

Aye, I found that out after. So, patently not Munich. *stands corrected*

[Joe 466]

Rollerball's was mostly filmed in Munich

[yesterday 2,027]

 

The outsiide shooting for the most part took place at Starnbergersee including the famous Steve McQueen motorcycle acrobatics.

Go on then tell me where the Motor bike jump was filmed, got a street name? or anything to go on?

[yesterday 2,027]

Just looking at www.imdb.com - it sees that the Motorbike stuf was filmed near Fussen.

 

A had always thought that, as I used to go paragliding alot near Fussen at a plave called somethin like Tannanheim, the views always looked very similar to the Great Escape stuff.

[Darkknight 2,305]

Well, after watching the extended info. tracks on the Great Escape DVD, the following details are:

 

1. The camp scenes were filmed at the Bavaria Film Studios in Geiselgasteig (Gruenwald)

The camp was a full scale recreation taken from plans from a former POW camp. However

only 1-2 of the living quarters/huts were fully built on the inside as well, the rest were just shells.

The actual location of the camp was (Then) outside the foot print of the studios down a dirt road

in the forest. Today, the location of the camp is a football field.

 

2. The train scenes, were filmed on the Munich/Hamburg line, outside of Munich. They had DB hold the passenger trains for

15-20 minute blocks so they could run the old steam train that was used in the movie..

 

3. The motorcycle chase, the "border jump", and the plane flight were all filmed near Füssen. - Source

 

More Info. can be found in the Wiki

[Coldplay 0]

Hello @ all,

 

I don´t know if there is anyone around who is still interested in Willy Wonka Filminglocations. I lived in Munich from 2009-2010 and discovered so many locations. More, than you are able to find via official Internet Movie location websites. I have investigated not just the main locations. I have got plenty of further information and photos. For example, when they are leaving the School during the very first movie sequence, many parts of his newspaper round, his mothers workplace and I know the correct position of Bills Candy Shop! And so on.

 

Concerning to Rollerball, I found many other places as seen during the Video memorial scene at Jonathans Ranch. By the way, his Ranch is located in the UK ( Kent ), not in Germany. Besides that, the Rudi Sedlmayr Halle re-opened in 2012. During my last Trip I sneaked around while the Basketball Division of Bayern München Club played there. It was so awesome, standing in the same Hall where the Rollerball action took place!

I cannot describe! :D

[munich1971 0]

I remember when they were casting for Willy Wonka movie in Munich. I remember being interviewed, I did not know what it was for until I got home and my brother told me about the movie. I was two years younger than what they were looking for.