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(as) In the past few weeks, film teams have been in action in the Bad Godesberg district of Mehlem. The ZDF comedy “Mona & Marie” was filmed in a villa on the banks of the Rhine by a Cologne production company. The Bad Godesberg onlookers who saw the cameramen and technicians on the Schlossallee / Rüdigerstraße with the actors on the shooting days will certainly see that the story of two dissimilar sisters will later take place in Düsseldorf and that Mehlemer Schlossallee will be relocated to the state capital of North Rhine-Westphalia not to be sad. Like the other districts of Bonn, Bad Godesberg has often been the setting for numerous film and television productions. In the second half of 2020 in particular, many requests for shooting were received by the event coordination of the Bonn Citizens’ Services.
Despite the Corona lockdown in the spring of 2020, the shutter fell on around 71 shooting days for around 54 productions at Bonn locations last year. Between mid-March and June, due to the pandemic, these were mainly requests for smaller reports or live streams of church services and concerts. For comparison: In 2019, 81 productions were shot on 115 days in the federal city.
A ZDF Christmas comedy was last shot in January in Mehlem in a villa on the Rhine.
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Bonn city center was again particularly popular. The historical residential developments in the Südstadt and Bad Godesberg as well as the banks of the Rhine are in demand as a backdrop for many productions. Five feature films and TV films were shot in Bonn in 2020. In November, four locations in Bonn, including Hofgarten and Markt, were the setting for the ARD tragicomedy “We Can Die Later” starring Walter Sittler and Andrea Sawatzki.
The Rheinhotel Dreesen was most recently the backdrop for the historic two-part TV series “The White House on the Rhine”. It tells of the struggle for survival of a hotelier family between the end of the First World War and the eve of the Second. The production will be broadcast on ARD in 2021.
Many other film productions will also be realized in the region in 2021. Then the director quickly says “Quiet please!”, “Sound off”, “Camera off”, and “Shut up”.
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