Nuovo progetto per Francois e Ana: Thursday

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Posted on 13/9/2013, 21:13 by: Miss.ChatterBox

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Nuovo articolo sul film. // New article about the movie.

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A thriller is being made in the ramshackle psychiatric ward

We visited the set of the movie “Thursday” which at the moment is being filmed in Budapest. Partly it is special because the writer/director of the international production is the Hungarian Balázs Juszt, and we had to visit the now abandoned National Psychiatric Ward, since certain parts of the movie take place there. We discovered the deserted corridors as much as we could.
"Thursday” is a supernatural psycho-thriller which tells the story of a priest named Smith who descends into the dark circles of Rome. Of course, the details of the movie are highly confidential so we learned only little bits and pieces. Despite the Hungarian director, who graduated in the US, the movie is fully American and it is financed by American and Austrian investors.
They didn’t reveal any secrets regarding the movie but we were lucky enough to ask one of the actors, Federico Galavis about his experiences in Budapest whose character had just died in an explosion so he wasn’t in a hurry at all. The actor told us that he loves the city and beside the gym he loves to spend his time in the city’s different ruinpubs, and he and the already family-like crew love to dive into the Budapest night life. Naturally one of his big favourites is Szimpla, but he said he would definitely want to visit the Wine Festival.
Regarding the actors the picture is quite versatile: one of the two main characters is Mark Ivanir who was in Schindler’s list, and the other is Francois Arnaud from Montreal. The fairer sex is represented by the beautiful Ana Ularu from Romania. But of course there are Hungarian actors too in the group. For example Ferenc Hujber, who became famous thanks to “Valami Amerika”, represents the dark side in the movie playing a Nazi. The actor said that he didn’t consciously prepare for his role at all, because he thinks it all comes out of nowhere.
By the way the ex-psychiatric ward seems perfect for a production like this. Despite the sunshine it was one of the most horrific places we have ever been. The abandoned corridors, the barred windows and the musty air provided the atmosphere well known from horror movies; and of course the strange feeling that there are little girls with black hair waiting for us in every corner.
To tell the truth there were certain stairs we didn’t dare climb, and we turned back at entrances leading to darker corridors. However the biggest fear is not the ghosts of the patients treated with electrotherapy but the cave-in hazards of the building unused since 31 December 2007. Eszter Turán, the Hungarian co-producer of the movie told us that they restored certain places for the movie, for example the chapel which has painted glasses and a dome and which is by the way also pretty creepy.

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Nuovo progetto per Francois e Ana: Thursday

[François Arnaud // Cesare Borgia; Ana Ularu // Charlotte d'Albret]