Argo (2012)
Country: USA, UK
Language: English, German, Arabic, Persian
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Director: Ben Affleck
Screenplay: Chris Terrio, based on The Master of Disguise
by Antonio J. Mendez, The Great Escape: How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans from Tehran by Joshuah Bearman
Stars: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin, John Goodman
Filming dates: 2 September – 20 November 2011
Release date: 31 August 2012
Filming locations:
- Istanbul
- Hagia Sophia (the secret meeting)
- Blue Mosque (short lead in to secreet meeting)
- Yeni Camii (vide shot to Bosporus, in center)
- Bosphorus
- California
- Los Angeles
- Veterans Hospital – 1611 Plummer Street, North Hills (American embassy facade)
- 1001 Bel Air Road (Lester Siegel’s home)
- Beverly Hills (Lester Siegel house)
- Burbank
- Smoke House Restaurant – 4420 West Lakeside Drive
- Warner Brothers Burbank Studios – 4000 Warner Boulevard (studio)
- Ontario
- Ontario International Airport – 2900 E. Airport Drive (Tehran airport scenes)
- Los Angeles
- District of Columbia
- Washington (State Dept and Memorial Bridge)
- Virginia
- McLean (establishing CIA HQ scenes)
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