After London, the Hungarian film industry is in second place in Europe, and not because we are “cheap” – said Csaba Káel, the government commissioner for film, the head of the National Film Institute (NFI). To the Hungarian Nation in an interview in which he also spoke about meeting Mel Gibson, who “knew a surprising amount about the life and work of Franz Liszt”.
After mentioning that a relatively large number of Hollywood actors have shot in Hungary in recent years, Csaba Káel explained that “the lives of the stars seem easy, but in fact they have a very tight agenda” and “they do not come here by accident, but to the amazing quality of the Hungarian film industry. thanks to ”.
Asked “what’s behind it”, “did the film industry break record volume in just an epidemic year” and “Jamie Lee Curtis said we became East Hollywood”, the film commissioner said the Hungarian film industry was not at the forefront in Europe because ” we are cheap ”. According to him, “the conditions of Budapest, the studio wreath surrounding the capital allow a star to be on the set in twenty minutes”, and they also “love to be here, they love the atmosphere of the city, the security, the excellent Hungarian professionals”.
Asked if there would be any political controversy when negotiating with, say, Netflix, the government commissioner for film said, “when we first talked to Netflix, they said there are stars who are happy to come to us, but there are also those who the LGBTQ theme they do not want to shoot in Hungary ”. Cahel added, they don’t want to convince “the star who doesn’t want to come here” because “another will come instead”.
Fortunately, at the end of the interview, the Hunyadi film series also, the filming of which begins in the spring, and of which Kael saw “dizzying visual designs”.
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