where was the movie the ghost writer filmed
The Ghost Writer (film)
The film finally began production in February 2009 in Germany , at the Babelsberg Studios in Potsdam . Germany stood in for London and Martha 's Vineyard due to Polanski 's inability to legally travel to those places , as Polanski had fled the US in 1978 after pleading guilty to unlawful sex with a 13 - year - old girl . The majority of exteriors , set on Martha 's Vineyard , were shot on the island of Sylt in the North Sea , and on the ferry MS SyltExpress . The exterior set of the house where much of the film takes place , however , was built on the island of Usedom , in the Baltic Sea . Exteriors and interiors set at a publishing house in London were shot at Charlottenstrasse 47 in downtown Berlin ( Mitte ) , while Strausberg Airport near Berlin stood in for the Vineyard airport . A few brief exterior shots for driving scenes were shot by a second unit in Massachusetts , without Polanski or the actors . 
The film finally began production in February 2009 in Germany , at the Babelsberg Studios in Potsdam . Germany stood in for London and Martha 's Vineyard due to Polanski 's inability to legally travel to those places , as Polanski had fled the US in 1978 after pleading guilty to unlawful sex with a 13 - year - old girl . The majority of exteriors , set on Martha 's Vineyard , were shot on the island of Sylt in the North Sea , and on the ferry MS SyltExpress . The exterior set of the house where much of the film takes place , however , was built on the island of Usedom , in the Baltic Sea . Exteriors and interiors set at a publishing house in London were shot at Charlottenstrasse 47 in downtown Berlin ( Mitte ) , while Strausberg Airport near Berlin stood in for the Vineyard airport . A few brief exterior shots for driving scenes were shot by a second unit in Massachusetts , without Polanski or the actors .
The film finally began production in February 2009 in Germany, at the Babelsberg Studios in Potsdam. The majority of exteriors were shot on the island of Sylt in the North Sea, and on the ferry MS SyltExpress. The exterior set of the house was built on the island of Usedom, in the Baltic Sea.  Exteriors and interiors set at a publishing house in London were shot at Charlottenstrasse 47 in downtown Berlin (Mitte), while Strausberg Airport near Berlin stood in for the Vineyard airport.  A few brief exterior shots for driving scenes were shot by a second unit in Massachusetts, without Polanski or the actors.
The film finally began production in February 2009 in Germany , at the Babelsberg Studios in Potsdam . The majority of exteriors , set on Martha 's Vineyard , were shot on the island of Sylt in the North Sea , and on the ferry MS SyltExpress . The exterior set of the house where much of the film takes place , however , was built on the island of Usedom , in the Baltic Sea . Exteriors and interiors set at a publishing house in London were shot at Charlottenstrasse 47 in downtown Berlin ( Mitte ) , while Strausberg Airport near Berlin stood in for the Vineyard airport . A few brief exterior shots for driving scenes were shot by a second unit in Massachusetts , without Polanski or the actors .