Along the way, viewers are taken on a journey through dark forests, subterranean caves, and many other unnerving locations.<\/p>\n
Read on for everything you need to know about where Dark on Netflix was filmed, including what Odar and Friese had to say about the series\u2019s creepy setting.<\/p>\n
Where is Netflix\u2019s Dark filmed?<\/strong><\/h2>\nSurprisingly, despite the spooky woodland setting, the production team behind the series found the ideal location less than an hour from the German capital of Berlin.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe actually shot in Berlin,\u201d Friese said. \u201cActually, once you go a few minutes from the city centre, Berlin basically becomes a village. We picked various different places: a house here, a house there. But all the locations are shot around Berlin.\u201d<\/p>\n
Odar added that the forest proved the ideal setting for Dark\u2019s dark vision.<\/p>\n
![\"Dark]( "\\"DARK\\"\/")
\n<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n<\/div> Louis Hofmann as Jonas Kahnwald in Dark.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n\u201cThe forest is about an hour away from the city centre,\u201d he said. \u201cThe soil here is very dry, so you get a lot of coniferous, long straight trees. They feel for me very creepy, like a fairytale forest.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love those long straight trees \u2013 they\u2019re like jail bars. Visually it\u2019s very interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n
The action in the series also covers three different time periods:\u00a02019, 1986, and 1953. Each new location therefore had to be redesigned to suit the particular era.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs I directed all the episodes, we treated the entire thing like a very long feature film,\u201d Odar said. \u201cWe told ourselves we were doing a ten-hour feature film, so we shot it chronologically.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe shot everything in the woods, then everything in the school; we then had a weekend in between to redress the school from the present time to the \u201980s. We also have another timeline in the \u201950s, so we had to deal with that. But we stayed in one location and redressed it.\u201d<\/p>\n
While a German show, the filmmakers believe the series easily translates for a global audience.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe always work in a way that we try to tell a story that works everywhere,\u201d Odar said. \u201cAll of our projects so far have been well received internationally, because we want to reach a broad audience.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t believe in local stuff, we don\u2019t believe in genre \u2013 we just believe in good stories.\u201d<\/p>\n
Is the town of Winden in Dark a real place?<\/strong><\/h2>\nSadly, no: the small town next to a nuclear power plant is not actually a real town in Germany.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a fictional town,\u201d said Friese. \u201cWe deliberately wanted that because we didn\u2019t want to colour it with a specific Bavarian or northern German setting. We wanted it to be somewhere that could be everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, their real history did inform how they saw the location: \u201cWe both come from small towns, so you can probably find both our birth towns in there a little bit,\u201d Friese added.<\/p>
All three seasons of Dark are available to watch on Netflix. Sign<\/a> up for Netflix from \u00a34.99 a month<\/a>. Netflix is also available on Sky Glass<\/a> and Virgin Media Stream<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\nCheck out more of our Drama<\/a> coverage or visit our TV Guide<\/a> and Streaming Guide<\/a> to find out what\u2019s on.<\/strong><\/p>\nTry Radio Times magazine today and get 10 issues for only \u00a310 \u2013 subscribe now<\/a>. For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to The Radio Times Podcast<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n
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\u201cWe actually shot in Berlin,\u201d Friese said. \u201cActually, once you go a few minutes from the city centre, Berlin basically becomes a village. We picked various different places: a house here, a house there. But all the locations are shot around Berlin.\u201d<\/p>\n
Odar added that the forest proved the ideal setting for Dark\u2019s dark vision.<\/p>\n
![\"Dark](\"https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2017\/11\/DARK_106_Unit_00047R-449af78.jpg?quality=90&resize=620%2C413\" "\\"DARK\\"\/")
\n<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n<\/div>\u201cThe forest is about an hour away from the city centre,\u201d he said. \u201cThe soil here is very dry, so you get a lot of coniferous, long straight trees. They feel for me very creepy, like a fairytale forest.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love those long straight trees \u2013 they\u2019re like jail bars. Visually it\u2019s very interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n
The action in the series also covers three different time periods:\u00a02019, 1986, and 1953. Each new location therefore had to be redesigned to suit the particular era.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs I directed all the episodes, we treated the entire thing like a very long feature film,\u201d Odar said. \u201cWe told ourselves we were doing a ten-hour feature film, so we shot it chronologically.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe shot everything in the woods, then everything in the school; we then had a weekend in between to redress the school from the present time to the \u201980s. We also have another timeline in the \u201950s, so we had to deal with that. But we stayed in one location and redressed it.\u201d<\/p>\n
While a German show, the filmmakers believe the series easily translates for a global audience.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe always work in a way that we try to tell a story that works everywhere,\u201d Odar said. \u201cAll of our projects so far have been well received internationally, because we want to reach a broad audience.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t believe in local stuff, we don\u2019t believe in genre \u2013 we just believe in good stories.\u201d<\/p>\n
Is the town of Winden in Dark a real place?<\/strong><\/h2>\nSadly, no: the small town next to a nuclear power plant is not actually a real town in Germany.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a fictional town,\u201d said Friese. \u201cWe deliberately wanted that because we didn\u2019t want to colour it with a specific Bavarian or northern German setting. We wanted it to be somewhere that could be everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, their real history did inform how they saw the location: \u201cWe both come from small towns, so you can probably find both our birth towns in there a little bit,\u201d Friese added.<\/p>
All three seasons of Dark are available to watch on Netflix. Sign<\/a> up for Netflix from \u00a34.99 a month<\/a>. Netflix is also available on Sky Glass<\/a> and Virgin Media Stream<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\nCheck out more of our Drama<\/a> coverage or visit our TV Guide<\/a> and Streaming Guide<\/a> to find out what\u2019s on.<\/strong><\/p>\nTry Radio Times magazine today and get 10 issues for only \u00a310 \u2013 subscribe now<\/a>. For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to The Radio Times Podcast<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n
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Check out more of our Drama<\/a> coverage or visit our TV Guide<\/a> and Streaming Guide<\/a> to find out what\u2019s on.<\/strong><\/p>\n Try Radio Times magazine today and get 10 issues for only \u00a310 \u2013 subscribe now<\/a>. For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to The Radio Times Podcast<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n The filming locations used in Netflix’s creepy German TV series Dark. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":49433,"template":"","categories":[1,5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/04\/where-is-netflix-series-dark-filmed-is-winden-a-real-place.jpg",1100,825,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/04\/where-is-netflix-series-dark-filmed-is-winden-a-real-place-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/04\/where-is-netflix-series-dark-filmed-is-winden-a-real-place-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/04\/where-is-netflix-series-dark-filmed-is-winden-a-real-place-768x576.jpg",768,576,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/04\/where-is-netflix-series-dark-filmed-is-winden-a-real-place-1024x768.jpg",800,600,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/04\/where-is-netflix-series-dark-filmed-is-winden-a-real-place.jpg",1100,825,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/04\/where-is-netflix-series-dark-filmed-is-winden-a-real-place.jpg",1100,825,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The filming locations used in Netflix's creepy German TV series Dark.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/49432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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