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"Die Unendliche Geschichte" was filmed mostly at the Bavaria Film Studio
in Munich.  The "city" scenes were filmed on location in Vancouver, BC.
The German version, which was released here in April, was dubbed into
German; the original soundtrack is English.

You may ask, "why did a German director and a German producer film
a German novel in Germany with American actors?"  The answer is easy:
the film cost $25 million, and to recoup such an investment, the film
had to be a hit in the U.S. as well as here.  Because foreign films
have a somewhat poor track record in the U.S., they made it look like a
U.S. film.  I notice that in the U.S. adverts, Bavaria Film Studios is
given much less credit than Warner Bros.  Well, the former did the film,
but the latter put up a hefty portion of the gold.

If you happen to visit Munich, you can take a tour of the Bavaria Film
Studios and see some of the sets used in the film.

mit freundlichen Gruessen,
David Holinstat
Hewlett-Packard GmbH    (...ucbvax!hpda!hpfcla!hpbbn!dnh)