The Cost of Deception (2021) on Netflix
Budapest, 2006. Réka, an ambitious market researcher, learns her boss helped leak a scandalous speech by the Hungarian prime minister. She and her journalist boyfriend look into the case.
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In 2006, the leaking of a scandalous speech by the Hungarian prime minister leaves many people in Budapest disappointed. They had already lost faith in the leaders who followed the Communist era, and in democracy itself. Réka works as a market researcher and wants to rise among the big-shots. She learns that her boss had a hand in getting the speech out to the public. Seeing a chance to advance, she begins to look into how the leak happened. Her boyfriend is a journalist, and the two of them take up the case together. Her boss confronts them over the questions they are asking.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Cost of Deception (2021)
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- Producer Gábor Kálomista accused cinemas of censoring Elk*rtuk and Budapest mayor Gergely Karácsony of hindering its distribution; Cinema City and Budapest Film denied it, and the National Film Office then classified the film as an art film.
- After its premiere, Elk*rtuk was shown at numerous free screenings in rural community centres backed by Fidesz officials; Fidesz MP László Vécsey offered free buses for Békemenet marchers to a Kistarcsa screening, and Karcag high schoolers got free rides to two screenings.
- Casting began in February 2021 under the cover description of a film about an opinion poller whose boss leaked a scandalous voice recording, and actors contacted by the casting agency asked for anonymity as rumours said the recording was the Öszöd speech.
- By 11 April 2021, 168 Óra spotted a contemporary water cannon and a burnt-out car outside the former headquarters of Hungarian Television, where Elk*rtuk was being shot — one of the most infamous sites of the 2006 protests against the government.
