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Ascenseur Pour l'Echafaud (Lift to the Scaffold)

Pont de Bir-Hakeim

Paris · France  ·  Stolen car dumped off bridge

Ascenseur Pour l'Echafaud (Lift to the Scaffold) filmed at Pont de Bir-Hakeim, Paris. Joyriders dump the stolen car on this combined road and railway crossing, west of the Eiffel Tower.

Pont de Bir-Hakeim, Paris

Where to go

48.855556, 2.287778

Probable Named in published production coverage; the coordinate is the place itself, checked against a gazetteer.

Good to know

Title
Ascenseur Pour l'Echafaud (Lift to the Scaffold) (1957)
On screen
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In real life
Pont de Bir-Hakeim, Paris
Can you visit?
Open to the public, free
Time to allow
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Confidence
Probable

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Pont de Bir-Hakeim today

Photography of the place as it is now — production stills from the publications that covered the shoot, and freely-licensed photographs. Each links to its source.

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Questions

Where exactly did Ascenseur Pour l'Echafaud (Lift to the Scaffold) film at Pont de Bir-Hakeim?
At 48.855556, 2.287778 in Paris. Named in published production coverage; the coordinate is the place itself, checked against a gazetteer.
Can you visit Pont de Bir-Hakeim?
Open to the public, free.
What else was filmed near Pont de Bir-Hakeim?
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