Shooting on Espionage For Beginners, Viktor Oszkar Nagy’s 3rd feature film after Father’s Acre (awarded the Gene Moskowitz trophy in Hungarian Film Week 2009) and Bullhorn Lullaby [+leggi anche:
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Stand-out names in the cast include Benett Vilmányi (at his absolute best in Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Lili Horvat
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intervista: Edward Berger
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Written by Norbert Csala, the story revolves around 28-year-old György who’s a receptionist in a hotel in Hungary nestled on the shores of Lake Balaton. Feeling trapped in a life which isn’t going anyway, he’s convinced he’s made for greater things. During the summer of 1976, he meets a young Belgian woman called Mathilde with whom he falls hopelessly in love. But their romance doesn’t go unnoticed. The Hungarian minister for the interior takes an interest, because Mathilde’s father is the chief deputy of Ouest Machine, a Belgian firm specialising in military technology. Hoping to obtain crucial information through György, the ministry employees try to force his hand by blackmailing him into cooperating. But, to their great surprise, György offers to help them voluntarily – it turns out he’s keen to take part in an international operation in Belgium. Believing that he’s finally found an opportunity to realise his spy potential, György dives in headfirst, but finds himself stumbling from one disaster to another...

Produced by Istvan Major for Hungarian outfit Filmsquad, in co-production with Belgium’s Wrong Men and Spain’s Javier Toledo, Espionage For Beginners enjoys support from the National Film Institute Hungary (NFI). Having kicked off on 27 May, shooting unfolded in Hungary (in Budapest and at Lake Balaton) and Belgium (between 30 June and 11 July) with Guillaume Benski (Superbe Films) as executive producer and Ábris Gosztola heading up photography. World sales are steered by US firm Moonstone Entertainment.