THE GREAT ESCAPE - Filming Locations (Bavaria, Germany)

'The Great Escape' was a film that I grew up with during my childhood, and to this day remains one of my favourites. Whilst not entirely historically accurate to the real-life escape the movie is based upon, it was (and still is) nonetheless regarded as one of the finest movies of the 1960s. The movie was shot in its entirety in Germany in 1962 at the Bavaria Film Studio in Munich, with location filming in rural Bavaria.

Hailing from a German family, my brother and I love all things to do with the country. And so after having to put it off for 3 years (thanks COVID), we finally flew out of London and landed in Munich in July 2022. Grabbing a hire car, we decided to spend one day venturing around southern Bavaria and went about seeking out some of the locations from the 1963 war blockbuster.

LOCATIONS
00:26 - Sedgewick cycling (Speiden, Bavaria)
00:42 - Hilts rides into town (Pfronten-Weißbach, Bavaria)
00:58 - Hilts rides the backstreets (Pfronten-Weißbach, Bavaria)
01:12 - Hilts takes cover behind a barn (Zell, Bavaria) *
01:26 - Cavendish hitches a lift in the truck (Speiden, Bavaria)
01:40 - Cavendish is caught by soldiers (Speiden, Bavaria)
01:54 - Hilts approaches the Swiss border (Pfronten, Bavaria)
02:10 - Hendley and Blythe fly though mountains (Neuschwanstein, Bavaria)
02:20 - Blythe crawls up the hill (Frauenried, Bavaria)
02:41 - German soldiers approach Blythe (Frauenried, Bavaria)
02:51 - French resistance car approaches cafe (Füssen, Bavaria)
03:03 - Bartlett runs across the rooftops (Füssen, Bavaria)
03:12 - Barlett is approached by a German patrol car (Füssen, Bavaria)
03:26 - Barlett takes a moment of reprieve (Füssen, Bavaria)
03:36 - Hilts jumps the barbed wire (Roßmoos, Bavaria)

* As mentioned in the video, the corner we filmed on is the opposite side the one McQueen was filmed on, as unfortunately there were maintenance vehicles in the way (they were working on a nearby pylon), however the barn is the same one in the film, still standing 60 years on.

I speak both English and German, please feel free to comment in either language.
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