Budapest, Bread, and Hope
Faint Glimmers: My Dispatch from Budapest
5 min readApr 23, 2024
“Is it Paris or is it communist Russia? Who knows?!” Colin Hanks
These days, thanks to lower wages and a lower cost of living — and studio heads’ need for more money — there’s a lot of Hollywood production in Hungary. On any given night, some celebrity or muckety-muck can be found sipping palinka at the Four Seasons Hotel…