In Paris, Scotland Yard watches Elise Clifton-Ward day and night: she is the lover of Alexander Pearce, a man who stole a fortune from a gangster and whom nobody has seen for years. A note from him tells her to take the train to Venice and choose a stranger of his build to fool the police. She picks Frank Tupelo, an American maths teacher on holiday, and pulls him into a chase through Venice. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck directed Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp, filming in Paris and Venice in 2010.
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The film starts in Paris, at the Le Nemours café under the Palais-Royal arcades, where Elise reads and burns Alexander's note. She leaves from the Gare de Lyon and arrives at Santa Lucia station, with the Grand Canal right in front of the steps. Le Nemours is also a place of The Intouchables.
In Venice, the Hotel Danieli by St Mark's is the hotel of the suite, but the boat arrival at its door was filmed at Palazzo Pisani Moretta, a private palace you see from vaporetto line 1. Frank's escape over the roofs in his pyjamas ends at the Rialto market, open only in the morning and closed on Sunday, and the police station is the front of the Marciana Library on the Piazzetta.
For the ball, Elise arrives by boat at the white arcades of the Fondaco dei Turchi, today the Natural History Museum, while the dance was filmed inside the Scuola Grande della Misericordia in Cannaregio, open only for events. In Venice everything is on foot or by vaporetto, and two days are enough. Robert Langdon's Venice is in Inferno.
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A real filming location. The film opens on this terrace under the Palais-Royal arcades: Elise has breakfast while Scotland Yard watches her, receives Alexander's note and burns it at the table.
Access · Open café: order something to sit on the terrace.
A real filming location. Following the note, Elise leaves Paris by train from this station, with the police one step behind; on board she chooses Frank.
Access · Station, open every day. The Le Train Bleu restaurant upstairs needs a booking.
A real filming location. Elise and Frank step off the train from Paris here and the Grand Canal opens in front of them; a motorboat takes them to their hotel.
Access · Busy station, open every day.
A real filming location that plays another place. The boat leaves Elise and Frank at the water gate of the Hotel Danieli, but what you see is this Gothic palace on the Grand Canal; the real Danieli stands near St Mark's.
Access · Private palazzo: seen only from outside, from the water. It opens only for private events.
A real filming location. The grand hotel by St Mark's where Elise takes Frank and where they share a suite. Scenes were filmed inside the real hotel; the boat arrival at its door was filmed at Palazzo Pisani Moretta on the Grand Canal.
Access · Hotel: interiors for guests and customers; the waterfront is free.
A real filming location. Chased across the rooftops in his pyjamas, Frank escapes by dropping onto the awnings of the Rialto market below.
Access · Public market, mornings only. The fish market is held Tuesday to Saturday; fruit and vegetable stalls Monday to Saturday. Closed on Sunday.
A real filming location. After the chase Frank is taken to the police, and the outside of the police station is this Renaissance library on the Piazzetta, facing the Doge's Palace.
Access · The outside, on the Piazzetta, is public and free. The historic rooms inside are visited with the St Mark's Square museums ticket, entering from the Museo Correr; check hours before you go.
A real filming location. Elise arrives by boat at the grand ball, and the white arcaded palace on the Grand Canal where she steps ashore is the Fondaco dei Turchi, today the Natural History Museum.
Access · The front is best seen from across the Grand Canal or from the water, free. Inside is the Natural History Museum, with its own ticket; check hours before you go.
A real filming location. The ball where Frank finds Elise and they dance was filmed in the great ground-floor hall of this Renaissance confraternity building, dressed by the production with a balcony and false stucco.
Access · Events and exhibition venue: inside only during events or exhibitions. The outside is public.
A real filming location. The old Venetian shipyard plays the Interpol base in Venice, where Elise goes to meet Inspector Acheson of Scotland Yard.
Access · Navy and exhibition area: inside only during the Biennale and other events. The Porta Magna and the towers are public and seen from outside at any time.
Yes.
The Hotel Danieli is a working hotel on the Riva degli Schiavoni.
The water door of the arrival scene is another building, Palazzo Pisani Moretta, which you see only from the Grand Canal.
Only during events or exhibitions.
The Scuola Grande della Misericordia is an events venue; its brick front on the canal is always free to see.
In the morning only.
The fish market is held Tuesday to Saturday and the fruit and vegetable stalls Monday to Saturday; everything is closed on Sunday.
No.
Its outside is the Marciana Library on the Piazzetta, free to see; the historic rooms are visited with the St Mark's Square museums ticket.
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Elise and Frank's Venice: from the station to the Danieli
The film's Venice on foot, in the order of the story: the arrival by train, the palace of the ball, the market of the rooftop chase, the police station and the hotel of the suite.
Walk it in the morning from Tuesday to Saturday to find the fish market open; it is closed on Sunday. To see the ball palace from the front, take vaporetto line 1 from the station: it passes right in front.
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Arrival in Venice
Walk ~9 min
Elise arrives at the ball
Walk ~8 min
The rooftop chase in pyjamas
Walk ~12 min
Frank at the police station
Walk ~5 min
Walk ~5 min
The hotel suite
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Walk ~17 min
By bus · ~14 min
Walk ~12 min
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Café open since 1720 on St Mark's Square, filmed in both The Talented Mr. Ripley and the Ripley series
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Piazza San Marco 57, 30124 Venezia
Restaurant and pizzeria by the Scalzi bridge, near the station where Langdon reaches Venice in Inferno
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Cannaregio 59, 30121 Venezia
Michelin-starred Alajmo restaurant above Piazza San Marco, facing the Basilica seen in Inferno
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Piazza San Marco 121, 30124 Venezia
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