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Raiders of the Lost Ark — Film Location

12 June 1981
Raiders of the Lost Ark — Film Location

The sun-baked streets and markets of ‘Cairo’ in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) — including the scene where Indiana Jones simply shoots a sword-twirling assailant — were filmed in the holy city of Kairouan in Tunisia. Its whitewashed medina, one of the oldest in the Maghreb, gave Spielberg a ready-made 1936 Egypt.

Filming location: quick answers

Where was Cairo filmed in Raiders of the Lost Ark?

In the holy city of Kairouan in Tunisia: its whitewashed medina, one of the oldest in the Maghreb, gave Spielberg a ready-made 1936 Egypt.

Where was the swordsman scene filmed?

In the sun-baked streets and markets of Kairouan's medina — the scene where Indiana Jones simply shoots the sword-twirling assailant.

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