Maps of Movies
The Boys from Brazil (1978)
Where The Boys from Brazil says it takes place, and where it was really shot.
A Paraguayan jungle, a Swedish dam and an American farm, and not one of them was filmed where the story says
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Scenes and places
The Nazi gathering in the Paraguayan jungle (1978)
Barry Kohler, a young amateur Nazi hunter, spies on a secret meeting of fugitive Nazis. Josef Mengele briefs them on a plan to kill 94 low-ranking civil servants across Europe and North America.
Set in A Kameraden meeting at an estate in Paraguay — Where fugitive Nazis gather and Josef Mengele hands out his orders.
A country where fugitive Nazis hid after the war; the film rebuilt it in Portugal.
Filmed at Lisbon, Portugal (no exact spot recorded) (Lisbon area, Lisbon, Portugal) — The producers could not shoot in South America, so the Paraguayan scenes were made in and around Lisbon. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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Lieberman takes the call in Vienna (1978)
Ezra Lieberman, a famous but penniless Nazi hunter, takes a phone call from Barry Kohler in Paraguay. Kohler says he has seen Nazis gathering; Lieberman brushes him off, and the line goes dead while he is still talking.
Set in Ezra Lieberman's home in Vienna — The cramped home of the cynical Nazi hunter, where the call from Paraguay reaches him. Google Maps · Apple Maps
The Austrian capital, where the real-life Nazi hunters of the postwar years worked.
Filmed at Vienna, Austria (no exact building recorded) (Vienna (city level), Vienna, Austria) — Part of the film was shot in Vienna; which building stands in for Lieberman's home is not recorded. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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Lieberman interviews Frieda Maloney in prison (1978)
Lieberman visits the jailed Kameraden member Frieda Maloney. She tells him the identical boys came through an intermediary in Brazil.
Set in A prison in West Germany — Where Frieda Maloney, a jailed Kameraden member, is questioned.
A prison scene whose real location is not recorded.
The snowy dam in Sweden (1978)
One of Mengele's assassins arrives in a snowy Swedish village and meets a man who lives there under a new name as a power-company inspector. The assassin admits he has been sent to kill a schoolteacher by Saturday and cannot see why.
Set in A dam near Storlien, Sweden — A snowy dam where a man living under a new name works as a power-company inspector.
The highest dam in Austria, rising over a Carinthian valley.
Filmed at Kölnbrein Dam, Carinthia, Austria (Maltatal, Carinthia, Austria) — The dam stands in for a location in Sweden, about 55 minutes into the film. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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The Massachusetts scenes (1978)
Lieberman's search follows a string of deaths of civil servants in different countries, each leaving a 13-year-old son. This is the American side of that string.
Set in Massachusetts, USA — One of the American settings in the chain of civil servants' deaths Lieberman investigates.
A US state on the East Coast, played here by London.
The biologist explains cloning (1978)
Lieberman asks the biologist Dr. Bruckner how identical boys could exist. Bruckner explains that cells from one donor can be kept for years, and that a child could be bred from them.
Set in A biology institute — The institute where Dr. Bruckner explains how cloning could produce identical boys.
A research institute whose real location is not recorded.
Mengele's mansion in Paraguay (1978)
While Lieberman closes in, the Kameraden leadership worries about Mengele's increasingly erratic behavior.
Set in Gunther's mansion in Paraguay — The estate where the Kameraden meet and Mengele's project is run.
A South American estate that the film stages in Portugal.
Filmed at Portugal (no exact spot recorded) (Lisbon area, Lisbon, Portugal) — The film's South American scenes were made in Portugal; no source names the mansion. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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The Wheelock farm in Pennsylvania (1978)
Lieberman travels to rural Pennsylvania to warn Henry Wheelock that he is in danger. What he finds at the farm turns the investigation into a fight.
Set in The Wheelock farm near Lancaster, Pennsylvania — A rural farm guarded by Doberman Pinschers, home of Henry Wheelock and his family.
Farm country in southeastern Pennsylvania.
Filmed at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA (no exact farm recorded) (Pennsylvania, Lancaster, United States) — Some scenes were shot in and around Lancaster, Pennsylvania; no source names the farm. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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Characters
- Ezra Lieberman — A famous but penniless Nazi hunter living in Vienna.
- Josef Mengele — The fugitive Auschwitz doctor running a secret project from Paraguay.
- Barry Kohler — A young amateur Nazi hunter who spies on the Kameraden meeting.
- The Kameraden assassin — One of the men sent to kill a retired civil servant on a set date.
Questions answered on the map
- Where is the snowy Swedish dam from The Boys from Brazil, really?
- Where was the Paraguayan jungle of The Boys from Brazil really filmed?