Shooting, which started on November 8, is taking place in the Róth Miksa Memorial House, where Picasso?s studio has been recreated, as well as at the Műcsarnok, the Museum of Ethnography, the Museum of Fine Arts and the Buda Castle. The latter two locations are substitutes for the Louvre in Paris, said co-producer István Major.
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The production came to Budapest because of ?good feedback? from the makers of other Spanish films, he said. Low prices, tax breaks and the popularity of the Spanish television film El Ángel de Budapest last year were also contributing factors, he added.
Several Hungarian actors are in the movie, among them Anikó Für and Eszter Tompa. The cinematographer is the European Film Award winner José Luis Alcaine, known from his work on Almodóvar films, and the production design is by the Oscar nominee Patrice Vermette.
About 200 reproductions of Picasso?s paintings are being used in the film, which is based on the true story of the theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911 and the implication of Guillaume Apollinaire, Picasso?s poet friend, in the crime.
Colomo declined to pigeonhole the film but said it would have elements of comedy, drama and crime.
The 2.4 million euro production will probably premiere in the autumn of 2012.
