A pair of nerve saws.

Only a few hundred meters away from the hustle and bustle away Berlinale director Roman Polanski turns a great deal of effort his new thriller "The Ghost". In contrast, competition is minimalist: the German film "All the other shows a couple in crisis.

 

Cinema is the art of illusion, sometimes more, sometimes less. How much effort with great effect, it is these days a few hundred meters away from the hustle and bustle experience Berlinale: The Charlotte Street in central Berlin doubelt a street in London called Orange Street. Three red double-decker buses have herangekarrt, and a dozen other cars with right-hand drive, which again and again by the road, of course, on the left side, and the German road signs against British man has changed. The entire block between the boulevard Unter den Linden and the Gendarmenmarkt is for the normal traffic.

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So it must be, at a large international production, with stars such as former Bond actor Pierce Brosnan. For director Roman Polanski ( "Chinatown") turns here just scenes of his new film "The Ghost", a thriller based on the novel by Robert Harris, cinema release in 2010.

Dozens of assistants and technicians scurry around, security guards whisper commands in their radios. Again and again, the cars will be reset and helpers with garden hoses abgeduscht so that the scene despite the sunshine after rainy weather looks. The extras wear? Finally, we are supposedly in London? Umbrellas and trench, some British police uniforms.

Actor Ewan McGregor is in a brew Cordmantel on the pavement. And a little gentleman with a black woolen bends over a monitor: Oscar-winner Roman Polanski, 75 years old. "Action!", Resonates through the streets, and then rolls back the traffic for a few meters. Only the host of a restaurant nearby is sour, because of the shooting because he barely gets through his local? and many guests on this day certainly is not. Maybe running "The Ghost" in the next year at the Berlinale, a large prestigious event this year as in Tom Tykwer's "The International".