Cobbled side streets run between salmon tenement blocks, and Kurkowa Street was dressed as Berlin for Bridge of Spies.
What Nadodrze looks like
Four- and five-storey tenement blocks line the wider streets, with salmon and cream render on the street fronts and rows of tall windows above the shopfronts. Tram rails run across the main junctions on cobbles, and the side streets are paved the same way.
Newer blocks stand among the old. A white office block stands at Dubois 41, and a curved glass hotel sits beside the water on a stone embankment.
On , a red brick fire station has gabled bays and arched doorways. A grey plaster block stands close by, with tall windows and cars parked at the kerb.
has the look of the turn of the twentieth century, and a wooden ticket pavilion from 1907 still stands in front of it. Across , a tram junction of cobbles and overhead wires, a tall red and white chimney rises beyond the roofs.
passes under a railway viaduct, with a brick college building rising behind it. Along the water, a dark stone embankment runs under willows. A red brick block stands behind the trees.
From a high window, the tenement fronts of one tram street run in a long line down the left side. A tram runs beside a green strip of trees, and parked cars line the kerb on the right.
Shot in Nadodrze
Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies used Kurkowa Street in 2014, and the production set the street up to resemble Berlin of the 1950s and 1960s. The Russian television series Dywersant. Koniec wojny (2006) also filmed scenes on the street. Nadodrze station has hosted several film crews. Waldemar Krzystek's film W zawieszeniu (1986), with Krystyna Janda, was shot there. Siódmy pokój, a 1990s international co-production, was made there too. Several episodes of the crime series Na kłopoty... Bednarski were shot at the station. Droga do domu, a film set in 1939, was shot inside the station in September 2023. The hall was dressed with Soviet slogans and a Stalin portrait. Filming for the TVP series Dom pod Dwoma Orłami, shot from October 2019 to 2021 and premiered on 1 January 2023, included the station.
Bridge of Spies, 2015
Played a Berlin street, Berlin, Germany, 1950s and 1960s
The production set the street up to resemble Berlin of the 1950s and 1960s. The photograph was taken at the south end of the street, where the Dubois junction shows rendered tenement fronts along one side. Street View
Nadodrze is sometimes compared with Berlin's Kreuzberg, and the four and five storey tenement blocks of both are close in scale. Frames of the street fronts hold the comparison best, because newer glass blocks and tram wires show up in wide views of the street. Tram overhead wires and the glass fronts of newer blocks give Wrocław away in wide frames, so keep the shots tight on the tenement fronts. Try searching Berlin tenement street now.
Nadodrze is also compared with Rome's Trastevere, where cobbled lanes run between rendered houses of similar height. The comparison holds for the lanes rather than the blocks, so use it for the cobbles. Terracotta roofs and bell towers would give Rome away in wide frames, so keep the shots to the lanes. Try searching cobbled lanes Rome now.
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