The Cost of Deception

The Cost of Deception (2021)

Elk*rtuk

When a young, ambitious market researcher finds out her boss is involved in the leaking of a scandalous Prime Minister speech, she decides to investigate the case to gain a position among the big-shots. Based on actual events.

Date of release
2021-10-21
TMDB
3.2 / 10 (46)
Runtime
2h 5m
Genres
Crime, Drama
Director
Keith English

Casting

Interesting facts

Elk*rtuk is a 2021 Hungarian political drama action thriller film, centered around the 2006 Öszöd speech made by former Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány, the leaking of said speech, and its subsequent consequences. It was directed by Keith English.

Production

The movie was largely produced in secrecy.

Public databases list the beginning of the movie's production, then under the working title "A hazugság ára", as 16 November 2020, with shooting then expected to begin on 21 March 2021. Casting for the movie, then described as "a movie about an ambitious, yet suppressed opinion poller, who discovers that their boss had a hand in leaking a scandalous voice recording", began in February 2021.

The financing and budget of the movie is also uncertain. In an interview with the BBC, producer Gábor Kálomista "denied receiving public money for the film, but declined to list the names of his financial backers." In the aforementioned public database, the total budget of the movie was initially listed as 800 million Hungarian forints, then on 9 July 2021, the budget increased to roughly 1.143 billion forints, of which approximately 343 million…

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