In march 2009 the stars and strips of the United States of Amerika were blowing in the harbours of the syltferry. The harbours Havneby and List became a movie set which saw the American east coast line confusingly similar.
Reason was the filming of Polanskis new political thriller THE GHOSTWRITER (based on the bestseller "Ghost" by Robert Harris). 

The Syltfähre plays in the movie THE GHOSTWRITER.
The "SyltExpress" appears as `Bay Line Ferries` in quite some scenes. 

In The Ghost Writer Roman Polanski has gathered an international all-star cast around him: in the leading roles Ewan McGregor (Star Wars: Episode I - III), Pierce Brosnan (James Bond, Mamma Mia!), Kim Cattrall (Sex And The City) and Olivia Williams (Sixth Sense). In other roles you find for ex. James Belushi, Tom Wilkinson, Eli Wallach and Timothy Hutton.The Ghost Writer is based on the novel "Ghost" by bestselling author Robert Harris. The film is a British ghost writer (Ewan McGregor), the memoirs of former Prime Minister Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan) to complete, after the former author has come under tragic circumstances, their lives. The publisher will pay a high long Millionengage for the book and the time is short. The Ghost Writer travels to the Atlantic island of Martha's Vineyard, where has the former premier and his wife Ruth (Olivia Williams) and withdrew a small staff at his attractive assistant Amelia Bly (Kim Cattrall). There Lang's political past, calls the press and angry demonstrators on the scene, the siege of the property. In the midst of the tumult the ghost writer makes an explosive discovery that Lang brings an entirely new light - and even bring him in mortal danger.the official homepage