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Where was Only Lovers Left Alive filmed?

2013 film, directed by Jim Jarmusch.

  • Germany

The story is set in Detroit, about 4,152 miles (6,682 km) from where it was filmed.

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Where it’s set vs. where it was filmed

Set in
Detroit; Tangier
Filmed in
Germany
Distance
About 4,152 miles (6,682 km) between Detroit and the nearest filming location.
Distance
About 1,312 miles (2,112 km) between Tangier and the nearest filming location.
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About Only Lovers Left Alive

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Released
2013
Director
Jim Jarmusch
Cast
Tilda SwintonMia WasikowskaJohn HurtAnton YelchinSlimane DaziJeffrey WrightYasmine HamdanJason Harris KatzTom Shillue
Genre
DramaRomanceVampireMusical

Married for centuries and now living half a world apart, two vampires wake as the sun goes down.

Eve relies on their old friend, the author Christopher Marlowe, who faked his death in 1593 and now lives under the protection of a protégé.

Adam pays Ian, a naïve young music fan, to procure vintage guitars and other assorted curiosities, including a custom-made wooden bullet with a brass casing he thinks of using to kill himself.

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