In ‘Tomorrow Never Dies’ James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) followed Elliot Carver (Jonathan Pryce) to Hamburg in Germany. At the airport he got specially equipped BMW 750 from Q (Desmond Llewelyn). Bond went to a big party organized by his opponent. There he met his former lover – Paris (Teri Hatcher), who had married Elliot Carver. Jealous husband ordered his subordinates to get rid of 007, who managed to come out of trouble and return to hotel. Paris Carver was already waiting for him in his room already. Later Bond sneaked into the printing house of Carver’s press empire. There he found entrance to secret laboratory. He had to run away in a hurry after being discovered by security. He left the building and got into the car parked nearby. Driving a car he was talking on the phone with Elliot Carver. His arrival to the hotel was noticed and reported by Stamper (Gotz Otto), standing on the roof of the opposite building. In the room James Bond found Paris dead and assassin – dr. Kaufmann (Vincent Schiavelli). James Bond killed that man and escaped from the room on the roof of the hotel. In a multi-storey car park he used mobile phone to remotely drive his car to escape from a group of opponents and finally knocked BMW into the AVIS window.

The sequence described above was located in Hamburg, but only part of it was filmed in Germany. Indoor scenes were filmed mostly in Great Britain. James Bond’s meeting with Q was filmed at the Hamburg airport on march 25th 1997. Carver’s party was filmed in IBM building in London, as well as in Pinewood Studios. Bond’s apartment was filmed in Stoke Poges club in Buckinghamshire. The fight in Carver’s printing house was filmed in real printing house in south-east part of London. Next scene with James Bond running to his car was filmed in Hamburg at Mönckebergstraße. He ran out of the Kleine Rosenstrasse passing by the entrance to the shopping center.

Bond’s BMW 750iL was parked at Mönckebergstraße next to Saint Peter’s Church.

The scene with Bond driving and talking on the phone was filmed nearby at Ballindam street.

While he was driving, different buildings were visible in background on the other side of the Inner Alster Lake, also called Binnenalster. There was i.e. Heinrich Hertz Tower.

Restaurant umbrellas obstructed the view, while he was passing by the Inner Alster Lake.

James Bond arrived to Atlantic Kempinski Hamburg at Holzdamm street.

His arrival to the hotel was noticed by Richard Stamper (Götz Otto) standing on the roof of the building on the opposite side of Holzdamm street.

James Bond left the room and climbed the ladder. As you can see in the next photo the ladder was not there anymore in 2019, when I was visiting Hamburg.

The following car chase sequence was filmed at car parking in London. The scene with BMW 750 at the highest level of parking was filmed back in Hamburg on the top of multi-storey car park at Lange Mühren street. When I was there in 2019 the whole building was covered as you can see in the photo. In the film there was fake big ‘ATLANTIC HOTEL’ sign mounted on the roof. In reality the hotel was located about one kilometer away. At the end BMW 750 jumped over the street and crashed into the AVIS rental.

The sequence was filmed at the Mönckebergstraße where it intersects with Steintorwall. It is one of many examples how film world differs from reality. The scene on the roof of the parking was filmed on the top of multi-storey car park that is partially visible on the left in the photo below. The car jumped from the top of the building that is on the right in the same photo.

Go to LOCATIONS GALLERY – ‘TOMORROW NEVER DIES’ to see locations photos compared with movie scenes.

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Information sources:
– ‘James Bond. Szpieg którego kochamy’ Michał Grzesiek, Wydawnictwo Bukowy Las 2011
– ‘Tomorrow Never Dies’ audio commentary, Tomorrow Never Dies Special Edition, Danjaq, LLC and United Artists Corporation 2006