However, part of it is run by the German Resistance Memorial Centre and not the ministry, and Babelsberg Studios says it will shoot there.

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After the Nazis expelled the Jews, their homes were taken on in some cases by stars at the Babelsberg film studios.

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Some 300 small media firms have set up in or near the city since 1994, many of them clustered around the Babelsberg film studios, once Germany's biggest.

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