Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp in Venice for film shoot

VENICE  – Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie were in Venice on Wednesday for the shooting of "The Tourist," a movie by Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck, the director of German hit "The Lives of Others".

The two actors were seen in front of the Danieli Hotel, one of the ritziest in the northern Italian city located right next to Saint Mark's square, and cruising around Venice's channels in water taxis.

"The Tourist" is a thriller in which the life of an American tourist, played by 46-year-old Johnny Depp, is put in danger when an Interpol agent, played by 34-year-old Angelina Jolie, uses him to entrap a criminal she is having a relation with.

Based on a screenplay inspired by the 2004 French movie "Anthony Zimmer" with Sophie Marceau and Yvan Attal, "The Tourist" is set to come out in 2011 in the United States.