Robin Lachhein and Judith Schneider, the German couple originally from Frankfurt, lovers of travel have taken a special initiative. To travel to the places where their favorite movies were made and take the same photos as them, with the same clothes and poses. Making their trips so memorable.
In 2014, they visited Prague and took a picture of “Mission Impossible”, making sure to document the moment on camera.
Over the next few years, Lachhein and Schneider visited many locations from Rome to Iceland, to New York, and even Utah, recreating scenes or promotional footage from films such as Thelma and Louise, The Hunger Games, Eat, Pray, and I love you, “The Devil Wears Prada” as well as TV series like “Game of Thrones” and “Downton Abbey”.
In 2018, the couple opened an Instagram account, where they post secret places they visit and special photos. On Instagram they have more than 40,000 followers.
They state that at first many of their friends claimed that the images were made in Photoshop and were surprised to learn that they had actually traveled to places featured in movies, dressed as their characters and taking pictures at an angle identical.
However, recreating a scene from an iconic movie or TV scene is not as simple as taking a picture. The couple often has to do a lot of planning in order to determine exactly where the place is presented in the sequence in which they want to focus as well as how to get there. They walk for hours to reach the place where Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling dance in the movie “La La Land”, while the villagers were ready to help them find a specific rock in New Zealand from the 2008 adventure movie “10,000 BC”.
While both work full time, Lachhein and Schneider plan their trips within six weeks of vacation each year. They point out that they pay for everything themselves and do not make money from their photos.
