PHOTOS: Kate Winslet and Alexander Skarsgard visited Budapest art cinema

The two Hollywood celebrities were spotted in the Puskin Cinema, one of Budapest’s most spectacular downtown art cinemas. The British actress and the Swedish actor are in Hungary due to their newest film, “Lee”, in which they play a married couple.

Kate Winslet and Alexander Skarsgard in Budapest

According to Blikk, Budapest’s Puskin Art Cinema hosted the crew screening of Lee, the newest film of Winslet (Titanic, The Reader, Mare of Easttown, Revolutionary Road) and Skarsgard (True Blood, Battleship, The Legend of Tarzan, Big Little Lies, The Northman). The screening was held on Saturday, and the cinema shared photos of the two main protagonists, who play a married couple in the film directed by Ellen Kuras.

The film follows the life of Lee Miller, an American fashion model who became a celebrated war photojournalist for Vogue magazine during the Second World War. The production shows how she made her first report for Vogue about the nurses working in hospitals and her departure to the continent to continue the work despite the bureaucratic obstacles authorities set for women. As a result, she could take photos of the siege of St. Malo and the liberation of Paris. She was the only woman photojournalist advancing with the Allied forces across Europe.

She was in Normandy after the D-Day and documented the Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps. Later, she snapped how Hitler’s Berchtesgaden home, the so-called “Eagle’s Nest”, was burning.

Lee Miller in 1943. Photo: Creative Commons

Lee took photos of the Hungarian prime minister’s execution

“When combined with her “evocative” prose, her coverage of the war gave readers not just an account of what happened, but what it was like to be there and witness those things in the thick of it all. The war would take a toll on her; in later years, she suffered from depression and alcohol abuse,” military.com wrote about her life.

She even visited Hungary and took photos of the execution of former Hungarian Prime Minister László Bárdossy in 1946. He was found guilty of war crimes and collaboration with the Nazis.

László Bárdossy’s (l) People’s Court trial in Budapest. Source: Fortepan / Mészáros Judit

One of her most well-known photos was made of herself by David E. Scherman, the war correspondent of the Life Magazine, in the bathtub of Adolf Hitler in his secret Munich private apartment.

Puskin Cinema is one of Budapest’s most beautiful cinemas, located on Kossuth Lajos Street in the 5th district, and opened in 1926. It was remodelled in 1988, leaving the original facade and the lobby. However, they divided the screening hall into three smaller ones (Metropolis, Amarcord, and Körhinta).

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