The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 location: the team is hidden in the Capitol by Tigris: Ivry Sur Seine, Val de Marne, France | Photograph: Wikimedia / Chabe01 Its lower level has been used as ‘Moscow Airport' in 2004’s The Bourne Supremacy, as ‘Bucharest’ in Captain America: Civil War and has also been seen in Joe Wright’s 2011 Hanna and Charlize Theron spy thriller Atomic Blonde.ĭeeper down into the system, the water-filled tunnels where the team is attacked by lizard mutts, are studio sets, but it’s back to ICC Messedamm as they make their way to the surface, finally emerging into another flourish of preposterously flamboyant architecture. One of the largest conference centres in the world, the ICC was used for conventions, theatrical productions and concerts but, although only opened in 1979, it was closed in 2014 due to asbestos contamination. They're the walls of the parking area beneath Berlin's ICC (Internationales Congress Centrum), in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. Those bright orange tiles will be familiar to anyone who's watched a film made in Berlin recently. The exteriors are breathtaking but, being social housing, those lavish interiors had to be created on studio sets.Īvoiding 'pods' (booby-trapped devices) the team moves down into the subway system beneath the city. It’s a spectacular, bizarre and, in places rundown, housing estate which you might remember from Terry Gilliam’s 1985 fantasy, Brazil.Īccording to director Francis Lawrence, sightseers aren’t made particularly welcome though I had no problem visiting here a while ago. It’s architect Ricardo Bofill's 1984 Palacio d’Abraxas Apartments, Place d'Abraxas, off Boulevard du Mont d'Est, west of the town centre. The enclosed circle where the team is almost engulfed by a tidal wave of CGI goo is at Noisy-le-Grand, a self-consciously modern satellite town about twenty miles east of Paris on the RER line, en route to Disneyland Paris. As the team gets closer to the city centre, the architecture becomes distinctly more extravagant. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 location: the team makes its way through the Capitol: Palacio d'Abraxas, Noisy-le-Grand, France After WWII, the complex of more than 50 buildings was used by Soviet troops until being abandoned in 1992, since when it’s provided a backdrop for Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, Bryan Singer's Valkyrie, The Monuments Men and Enemy At The Gates. The outer area of bombed-out high-rise apartment blocks is Krampnitz Kaserne, in Fahrland, just north of Potsdam near Berlin, a military complex built by the Germans during the period of the country's rearmament between the World Wars. Three different locations – in Berlin and Paris – are pieced together to represent the deserted city. This new squad, including Gale and Finnick ( Sam Claflin) and under the command of Dobbs ( Mahershala Ali), is soon making its way through the deserted outskirts of the Capitol. Katniss is informed she’s to be part of a ‘star squad’, kept away from the frontline fighting to appear in propaganda broadcasts. When Commander Paylor ( Patina Miller) gives that rousing speech exhorting the rebels to march into the Capitol, we’re now at the rear of the ever-adaptable Templhof. She survives of course and, despite being briefly hospitalised, is soon sneaking aboard an aircraft and heading unofficially back to District 2. In the end, refugees are given a chance to flee the Capitol, but Katniss’s reward is to be shot during the confusion. It's here there's a fractious discussion on tactics for the attack on the Capitol between those, including Gale Hawthorne ( Liam Hemsworth), who favour all-out bombing and Katniss, who pushes for a more measured response. The airport buildings were previously used for the grim 2002 sci-fi Equilibrium, with Christian Bale, and its grounds are now open as a public park, Tempelhofer Feld ( Tempelhof Field). It was central to the Berlin Airlift of 1948-49, when much-needed supplies were delivered by air to the blockaded West Berlin. Originally built in 1927 but massively extended by the Nazi government of the Thirties, Tempelhof was one of Europe's three major pre-World War II airports, along with London's Croydon Airport and the old Paris-Le Bourget Airport. The District 2 base at which she lands is the main entrance to the now-disused Tempelhof Airport, to the south of Berlin. Filmed back to back with Mockingjay – Part 1, the final film in the series was also based in Atlanta with location filming in Europe, around Berlin and Paris.ĭiscovering that Peeta Mellark ( Josh Hutcherson) has been weaponised, Katniss ( Jennifer Lawrence) is more determined than ever to get to the Capitol and kill President Snow ( Donald Sutherland), but before she can get to the Capitol, there’s the small matter of taking full control of District 2.
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