🏙 Towns & cities
Medan
city in North Sumatra Province, Indonesia
🇮🇩 Indonesia · 3.5894, 98.6739
Medan is named as a filming location in the Wikipedia articles of 2 productions — in the section each entry below links back to. No Wikidata filming statement points here yet, so this page says plainly which kind of evidence it rests on.
“The film was mostly filmed in Medan, North Sumatra, following the executioner Anwar Congo and his acquaintances as they, upon Oppenheimer's request, re-enact their killings and talk about their actions openly, also following Congo's psychological journey facing the topic.”
Filmed here, per Wikipedia
Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Medan as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, and labelled as what it is — each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.
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Frequently asked questions
What was filmed in Medan?
2 productions are recorded as filmed in Medan, including The Act of Killing (2012) and Tenggelamnya Kapal van der Wijck (2013). 2 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.
Which is the best known production filmed in Medan?
The Act of Killing (2012), covered by 27 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.
Where is Medan?
Medan is in Indonesia, at 3.5894, 98.6739.
Where does this information come from?
Filming location statements on Wikidata, joined to the place's coordinates and Wikipedia article, plus places named in Wikipedia articles, which are labelled per Wikipedia wherever they appear. The photograph is from Wikimedia Commons, by Bluesatellite, CC BY-SA 4.0.