From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Bill Lucy"  wrote in message
news:MPG.1a619dfbb18eba9f98bde4{at}news.barkto.com...
> From the Mars probe, Antti Kurenniemi says...
> > Funny note: quite a few American films in which you see Russia are
filmed
> > (at least the outdoors stuff) here in Finland. Just a while back we saw
some
> > older film that had Gene Hackman in it, where he was in Kreml, and the
entry
> > hall through which they walked inside was the cafeteria at the Helsinki
> > university where my wife goes - we had a laugh or two .
>
> Hackman was also in a movie a few years ago which had Chicago's Field
Museum of
> Natural History stand in for some Russian embassy.
>
> The Chicago Hilton & Towers and the El played themselves.
>
> 

There's also a small town called Porvoo about 30 kilometers from where I
live, which is often used as Russia, Poland, Transilvania or whatever. Last
time I saw it in Jackal, the new version with Bruce Willis in it - there
were some kidnappers using a postal van as their getaway car, which was
pretty hilarious because our post is delivered by electric powered vans
that are most certainly no speed demons ;-)

Very pretty town, it has a lot of old architecture well preserved.


Antti Kurenniemi
(hey I'm not in the mars probe, more like in pluto at least temperature wise)

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