"We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over the last five years has been remarkable."

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Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the East. It is a dreamed-up city; a city almost completely faked; a city invented out of other cities, out of Paris by way of Vienna — the imitation, as Claudio Magris has it, of an imitation.

— M. John Harrison