On screen, Karlovac often stands in for another city. This walk returns those stories to real places: from the streets of Gaza and the Kupa riverbank, through historic Zvijezda, to the wooden bridge on the Korana.

Suggested order: Stanko Vraz Street → Banija Bridge and the Kupa → Zvijezda, the film’s Chinese Quarter → Korana Wooden Bridge. Open each linked location for its GPS point and filming details.

Stanko Vraz Street was among the Karlovac locations used for The Mysterious Boy, the sequel to Koko and the Ghosts. Filming in Gaza and Banija was recorded in September 2012. By the Kupa and Banija Bridge, another screen world emerges: Karlovac represented Foča in The Hunting Party, while Banija Bridge also featured in the action setting of Renegades.

In Zvijezda, look for the atmosphere of the Chinese Quarter from The Hunting Party, in which Richard Gere and Terrence Howard search for a war criminal. The final stop is on the Korana: night filming for The Brave Adventures of a Little Shoemaker took place beneath the wooden bridge. This filming history does not mean that the area beneath the bridge is currently arranged for visitor access.

Allow approximately two and a half hours for the walk with short stops. This is an editorial planning estimate; adapt the order to your starting point. Follow public streets and riverbanks, and view locations on private property from public space.

Cover photograph: Karlovac’s star-shaped historic centre, source Digitalni Tisak, published on Wikimedia Commons by Bukovacka, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. Cropped for display.