Film and TV locations in Lithuania
60 places to shoot in Lithuania: 8 theatres, arenas and venues, 8 offices, schools and public buildings, 6 transport and infrastructure locations and 38 more. 23 have a photo and 0 carry practical details the location publishes itself. Search and put three side by side in the locations search.
What Lithuania pays back
Lithuania runs the Lithuanian Film Tax Incentive, worth Up to 30% of the production budget as a tax shelter. Work out the net value on your own spend in the incentive comparison, and find a studio, service company or post house in the 10 companies we list in Lithuania.
Regions
- Vilnius County 33
- Kaunas County 10
- Klaipeda County 9
And single locations in 5 more regions, all of them in the list below.
Theatres, arenas and venues in Lithuania 8
Auditoriums, concert halls, opera houses, cinemas, arenas and event spaces, with the backstage, foyers and dressing rooms that come with them. All 8 on their own page.
Kaunas National Drama Theatre
Theatre, arena & venue
Theatre on Laisves Avenue combining a 19th century auditorium with 1980s extensions, several stages, foyers and workshops.
Zalgiris Arena
Theatre, arena & venue
Arena of 2011 on an island in the Nemunas seating about 15,000, with a bowl, wide concourses, media rooms and a large loading area.
Arena Vilnius
Theatre, arena & venue
Indoor arena on Ozo street seating around 11,000, with a bowl, concourses, locker rooms and a large flat floor used for concerts and sport.
Juozas Miltinis Drama Theatre
Theatre, arena & venue
Panevezys theatre founded in 1940 and rebuilt in the 1960s, with a main auditorium, a small stage, rehearsal rooms and modernist foyers.
Lithuanian National Drama Theatre
Theatre, arena & venue
State drama theatre on Gedimino Avenue with several stages, rehearsal rooms, dressing rooms and a sculpted facade on the city's main street.
Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre
Theatre, arena & venue
Opera house opened in 1974 with a 1,000 seat auditorium, chandeliered foyers, marble staircases and backstage areas typical of Soviet era civic architecture.
Seen in: Moscow Noir
Lithuanian National Philharmonic Hall
Theatre, arena & venue
Concert hall of 1902 with a gilded neo-baroque auditorium, balconies and mirrored foyers, dressed as an imperial palace interior for period drama.
Seen in: Sisi
Snow Arena Druskininkai
Theatre, arena & venue
Indoor ski hall near Druskininkai with a covered slope of about 460 metres, lifts, a snow park and service buildings, open all year.
Offices, schools and public buildings in Lithuania 8
Offices, town halls, courtrooms, libraries, universities and schools: the interiors most contemporary drama actually needs. All 8 on their own page.
Lithuanian Sea Museum
Office, school & public building
Museum inside the 19th century Kopgalis fort on the Curonian Spit, with casemates, an aquarium, a dolphinarium, quays and dunes around it.
Contemporary Art Centre
Office, school & public building
Modernist 1967 exhibition building at the edge of the Old Town, with wide halls, terrazzo staircases and glazed frontage, used as a gallery and event space.
Kaunas Central Post Office
Office, school & public building
Interwar modernist post office of 1932 on Laisves Avenue, with a stone facade, a double height public hall, patterned floors and original counters and fittings.
Lithuanian Writers' Union Palace
Office, school & public building
Nineteenth century town palace on K. Sirvydo street with period rooms, a staircase hall and a garden courtyard, used for club, salon and residence interiors.
Seen in: Sisi
Martynas Mazvydas National Library of Lithuania
Office, school & public building
Monumental 1960s state library rebuilt in 2016, with a stone colonnade, long reading rooms, stacks and modern atria suitable for institutional and archive scenes.
Vilnius Town Hall
Office, school & public building
Neoclassical town hall of 1799 on the Old Town square, hired out for events, with a colonnaded portico, a main hall, side rooms and cellars.
Seen in: Catherine the Great, Clark, Hilma, Sisi
Vilnius University Old Campus
Office, school & public building
University founded in 1579 with thirteen linked courtyards, vaulted arcades, frescoed halls, a library of historic reading rooms and St John's Church inside the ensemble.
Seen in: Sisi, Catherine the Great
Vytautas Magnus University
Office, school & public building
University in the centre of Kaunas with interwar faculty buildings, lecture halls, staircases and courtyards close to Laisves Avenue.
Transport and infrastructure in Lithuania 6
Stations, airports, ports, bridges, tunnels, metro lines and rolling stock, including disused stretches that can be closed off for a shoot. Transport and infrastructure across Europe.
Port of Klaipeda
Transport & infrastructure
Ice free seaport along the Curonian Lagoon channel, with container and bulk terminals, cranes, quays, rail sidings and a cruise berth near the city centre.
Vilnius Airport
Transport & infrastructure
International airport whose 1954 terminal keeps a Stalinist portico and marble hall next to the modern departure buildings, aprons and taxiways.
Vilnius Railway Station
Transport & infrastructure
Main passenger station with platforms, an under track passage, a 1950s hall and a station square, plus depots and freight sidings in the surrounding district.
Aukstaitija Narrow Gauge Railway
Transport & infrastructure
Working 750 mm gauge railway of 1899 with steam and diesel locomotives, wooden carriages, a depot in Panevezys and small country halts along the line.
Smiltyne Ferry Crossing
Transport & infrastructure
Passenger and vehicle ferry link across the Klaipeda channel to the Curonian Spit, with terminals, ramps, waiting halls and working ferries.
Zaliakalnis Funicular
Transport & infrastructure
Funicular opened in 1931 with wooden cars, original winding gear and small station buildings, still running up the slope to Zaliakalnis.
Industrial and derelict locations in Lithuania 6
Factories, warehouses, power stations, mines, depots and abandoned buildings: raw space, hard surfaces and the kind of decay that is impossible to build. Industrial and derelict locations across Europe.
Energy and Technology Museum
Industrial & derelict
The city's first power station, in use from 1903 to 1998, keeping boilers, turbines, control panels, pipework and brick machine halls beside the river.
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Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant
Industrial & derelict
Decommissioned station with two RBMK reactors of the Chernobyl type, keeping turbine halls, corridors and a control room simulator that is open to guided visits.
Seen in: Chernobyl
Plokstine Missile Base
Industrial & derelict
Soviet underground missile base of 1962 in Zemaitija National Park, with four silos, control rooms, tunnels and technical halls open as a Cold War museum.
Klaipeda Culture Factory
Industrial & derelict
Former factory near the centre converted into a creative incubator, with brick halls, a black box theatre, studios and a yard used for events.
Loftas Art Factory
Industrial & derelict
Former fuel equipment plant turned event complex, with raw concrete halls, loading bays, a yard and gantry structures used for concerts and shoots.
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Western Baltija Shipbuilding
Industrial & derelict
Working shipyard on the Klaipeda channel with building halls, dry docks, slipways, gantry cranes and steel workshops, part of the former Vakaru laivu gamykla.
Houses and apartments in Lithuania 4
Private houses, villas, apartments and period interiors available for filming, from workers' housing to architect-designed homes. Houses and apartments across Europe.
Fabijoniskes housing estate
House & apartment
Late Soviet estate of prefabricated panel blocks with wide courtyards, playgrounds and unchanged 1980s facades, used repeatedly to double for cities in the former Soviet bloc.
Seen in: Chernobyl, Young Wallander, Paradise
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Visaginas
House & apartment
Town built from 1975 for nuclear plant workers, laid out in forest with uniform panel blocks, wide avenues and a lakeside beach, largely unchanged since the 1980s.
Seen in: Chernobyl
Chaim Frenkel Villa
House & apartment
Art nouveau villa of 1908 built for a leather manufacturer, with a stained glass staircase, panelled salons, a ballroom and a park with the former factory nearby.
Vileisis Palace
House & apartment
Early 20th century mansion in Antakalnis with panelled rooms, a formal staircase and a garden, dressed in productions as both a private residence and an institution.
Hospitals, prisons and institutions in Lithuania 4
Working and disused hospitals, clinics, prisons, barracks and asylums: corridors, wards and cells that are close to impossible to fake convincingly. Hospitals, prisons and institutions across Europe.
Kaunas Ninth Fort
Hospital, prison & institution
Fortress of 1902 later used as a prison and execution site, with casemates, cell corridors, earth ramparts, a museum block and a concrete memorial on open ground.
Lukiskes Prison 2.0
Hospital, prison & institution
Prison built in 1904 and closed in 2019, now a cultural venue: cell blocks, galleries, exercise yards, a chapel and the original barred corridors are open for events and shoots.
Seen in: Stranger Things
Kaunas Seventh Fort
Hospital, prison & institution
Nineteenth century fort in the north of Kaunas with brick barracks, tunnels, powder magazines, dry ditches and open glacis, run as a museum and event site.
Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights
Hospital, prison & institution
Former KGB headquarters on Auku street with the basement prison preserved: cells, padded isolation rooms, an interrogation wing and the execution chamber, plus 1950s office interiors.
Film studios and backlots in Lithuania 4
Sound stages, backlots, water tanks and virtual production volumes you can hire, with the crew base and power that go with them. Film studios and backlots across Europe.
Kino Manufaktura
Studio & backlot
Studio space in the former industrial quarter on Manufakturu street, listed by the Vilnius Film Office among the city studios available for hire.
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KS Independent Film Studio
Studio & backlot
Independent studio on the old Minsk road outside Vilnius offering stage space and production facilities in a rural setting with room for exterior sets and unit parking.
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Lithuanian Film Studio
Studio & backlot
Working studio complex founded in 1940 that rents out stages, production offices and technical services for feature, television and commercial shoots in Vilnius.
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Vilnius Film Cluster Green Screen Studio
Studio & backlot
Converted Soviet sports hall on Meistru street holding a sound stage of about 1,100 square metres with a large green screen, set up for small and mid-size film, TV and commercial work.
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Historic towns and streets in Lithuania 4
Old towns, squares and streets that can double for a period without dressing out a modern skyline. Historic towns and streets across Europe.
Laisves Aleja
Historic town & street
Pedestrian avenue of about 1.6 kilometres lined with interwar modernist blocks, shops, cafes and lime trees, running from the Old Town to the basilica.
Klaipeda Theatre Square
Historic town & street
Cobbled square in the old quarter framed by German half timbered and 19th century houses, the drama theatre and the Simon Dach fountain.
Uzupis
Historic town & street
River district next to the Old Town with narrow cobbled lanes, low workshops, courtyards and artist studios, on foot from the main historic locations.
Vilnius Old Town streets
Historic town & street
Pilies, Didzioji, Universiteto and Ausros Vartu streets form a compact grid of baroque and classical facades, arched gateways and courtyards that stand in for 19th century Europe.
Seen in: Sisi, Catherine the Great, War and Peace, Clark
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Castles and estates in Lithuania 3
Castles, fortresses, manor houses and country estates, usually with grounds, outbuildings and period interiors in one place. Castles and estates across Europe.
Kaunas Castle
Castle & estate
Fourteenth century brick castle at the meeting of the Nemunas and Neris, with a round tower, curtain wall, moat and open riverside ground.
Trakai Island Castle
Castle & estate
Fifteenth century brick castle on an island in Lake Galve, reached by footbridge, with a keep, ducal palace, courtyards and defensive galleries.
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Traku Voke Manor
Castle & estate
Tyszkiewicz manor of 1880 on the southwest edge of Vilnius, with a neo-renaissance house, restored salons, stables and a landscape park by Edouard Andre.
Seen in: War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Catherine the Great, Hilma
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Palaces and landmarks in Lithuania 3
Palaces, state rooms and recognisable landmarks, the places an establishing shot is built around. Palaces and landmarks across Europe.
Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania
Palace & landmark
Reconstructed royal residence at the foot of Gediminas Hill, with renaissance and gothic halls, archaeological cellars and a walled forecourt.
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Sapieha Palace
Palace & landmark
Baroque palace of about 1700 in Antakalnis restored in 2024, with stucco state rooms, an arcaded facade and a formal park used as an arts centre.
Seen in: Young Wallander, Conspiracy of Silence, Playlist
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Palanga Amber Museum
Palace & landmark
Tiskeviciai Palace of 1897 in a botanical park by the sea, with a colonnaded facade, marble hall, period rooms and formal gardens.
Bars, restaurants and shops in Lithuania 2
Cafes, bars, restaurants, markets, shops and shopping streets, the everyday interiors a schedule eats through quickly. Bars, restaurants and shops across Europe.
Hales Market
Bar, restaurant & shop
Covered market of 1906 with a cast iron and glass roof, stalls on two levels, cellars and a produce yard, trading daily at the edge of the Old Town.
Paupys Market
Bar, restaurant & shop
Food hall in the redeveloped Paupys quarter with open kitchens, bars, a mezzanine and glass frontage onto the river, opened in 2019.
Churches and monasteries in Lithuania 2
Cathedrals, churches, chapels, monasteries and cloisters, plus the crypts and refectories behind them. Churches and monasteries across Europe.
Hill of Crosses
Church & monastery
Pilgrimage mound north of Siauliai covered with tens of thousands of crosses of all sizes, reached by a boardwalk across open farmland.
Pazaislis Monastery
Church & monastery
Baroque monastery of 1667 above Kaunas Lagoon, with a hexagonal church, frescoed interiors, cloisters, guest wings and a walled forecourt.
Modern architecture in Lithuania 2
Contemporary buildings with a strong shape: museums, concert halls, campuses, glass towers and brutalist concrete. Modern architecture across Europe.
Vilnius TV Tower
Modern architecture
Concrete tower of 1980 standing 326 metres, with a revolving observation deck at 165 metres, technical floors and a wide open site around the base.
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National Gallery of Art
Modern architecture
Gallery on the right bank rebuilt in 2009 from a 1980 museum, with grey stone volumes, a long ramp, high white halls and a terrace over the river valley.
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Coast and beaches in Lithuania 2
Beaches, cliffs, harbours and coastline, including stretches that can be closed off in the off season. Coast and beaches across Europe.
Parnidis Dune
Coast & beach
Sand dune above Nida rising about 50 metres, with bare sand slopes, a sundial column, pine edges and views over the lagoon and the Russian border.
Ventes Ragas
Coast & beach
Cape on the Curonian Lagoon in the Nemunas Delta Regional Park, with a lighthouse, a bird ringing station, reed beds and open water.
Hotels and interiors in Lithuania 1
Hotels, spas and their lobbies, ballrooms, bars and corridors, including closed or seasonal properties that can take over a whole unit. Hotels and interiors across Europe.
Hotel Pacai
Hotel & interiors
Seventeenth century Pac Palace on Didzioji street converted into a hotel, keeping frescoed ceilings, a stone courtyard, vaulted cellars and a grand staircase.
Villages and countryside in Lithuania 1
Villages, farmland, meadows and rural roads: open country with somewhere to put a unit base. Villages and countryside across Europe.
Kernave Archaeological Site
Village & countryside
UNESCO listed site of five hill forts above the Neris terrace, with open meadows, a reconstructed settlement and a small village, an hour from Vilnius.