Most of the school’s interiors, though, were filmed at a rural cultural center adjacent to an abandoned factory in Dunaújváros, an industrial city on the River Danube, in Central Hungary about 40 miles south of Budapest. The castle and surrounding park are now open to visitors during summer months. This palace was built in 1815 for Antal Festetics, a wealthy (obviously) Hungarian nobleman, then used as a military facility during WWII before being taken over by the Soviets as a children’s home. Don’t confuse this with the other, more famous, Festetics Palace in Keszthely at the western tip of Lake Balaton. The exteriors for the training school, ‘State School Four’ were filmed at Festetics Palace in Dég, about 50 miles southwest of Budapest. Red Sparrow location: 'Training School Four': Festetics Palace, Dég, Hungary | Photograph: Shutterstock / posztos It was built in 1894 as a local head office for the New York Life Insurance Company, nationalised during the communist era but, following the collapse of the USSR, renovated to become this extravagant hotel. The ‘Hotel Andarja’ is the New York Palace Hotel, Budapest, Erzsébet körút 9, 1073, in the 7th district. In fact, the set-up becomes a hit and Ustinov is killed in front of her. She’s to seduce wealthy and corrupt politician Ustinov in a luxury hotel and, while he’s distracted, quickly swap his mobile for another. Now used as a congress and cultural centre, it currently houses Teatro Wüstenrot. The forbiddingly austere exterior of the Russian agency outside which Dominika meets with her Uncle Vanya is Dom odborov, the former House of Trade Unions, Istropolis, Trnavské mýto 1, 831 04 Bratislava, in Bratislava’s Nové Mesto ( New Town). Red Sparrow location: Dominika meets her uncle outside the 'Russian' agency HQ: Dom Odburov, Istropolis, Bratislava | Photograph: Wikimedia / Mark AhsmannĪnd finally, Slovakia. Helsinki, the setting for much of Jason Matthews’s 2013 novel, is changed to increasingly film-friendly Budapest, Hungary, with many of the ‘Russian’ scenes being filmed in Bratislava, capital of Slovakia.įor the opening scenes, though, it’s Budapest appearing as ‘Moscow’, with Dominika hurrying through Budapest’s Hősök tere ( Heroes' Square) past the Műcsarnok Kunsthalle (Palace of Art) to what appears to be the 'Bolshoi Theatre' – though this was added digitally, masking what is really the Szépművészeti Múzeum ( Museum of Fine Arts).
When her ballet career is brought to a premature end, young Russian dancer Dominika Egorova ( Jennifer Lawrence) is enlisted by her creepily manipulative uncle Vanya ( Matthias Schoenaerts), Deputy Director of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, to train as a ‘sparrow’, an undercover state operative specializing in sexual seduction techniques.
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