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Feb 2025
17m 29s

Lights, camera, Budapest

Bbc World Service
About this episode

We’re in Budapest to find out how Hungary – once a satellite state of the Soviet Union – is now one of the world’s top film destinations, with movie-makers seduced by the central European country's generous tax breaks and incentives.

Academy Award nominees this year, The Brutalist and Dune 2, were filmed here – plus 2024 Oscar winner, Poor Things.

If you would like to get in touch with the show, please email: businessdaily@bbc.co.uk

Presented and produced by Wayne Wright

(Picture: Actors perform a scene of the movie "Hunyadi" (Rise of the Raven) during the opening ceremony of Hungary's National Film Institute's new studio complex in Fot, close to the capital Budapest, during the complex's inauguration on January 30, 2025. Credit: Getty Images)

this edition was edited on 28 February 2025

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