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5-Star Service
the Desgoffe trophy room at Schloss
Lutz, where Deputy Vilmos Kovacs
( Jeff Goldblum) gathers the bereaved
for a reading of Madame D.'s will. (The
rest of the house was filmed on location
at Germany's Schloss Waldenburg.)
Much of Anderson's camera blocking
in this scene required a 360-degree
sightline, so Yeoman and gaffer Helmut
Prein floated two skirted Zasa 9'x9' 5K
tungsten helium balloons between the
room's chandeliers. Two 2K tungsten
Fresnels were pointed at the large
painting of a boar on the wall behind
Kovacs, which is flanked by tungsten
candelabras on dimmers. "Helmut was
a wonderful collaborator, and we
worked together to formulate the most
effective lighting solutions," says
Yeoman.
The Stadthalle's main auditorium was converted into the Grand
Budapest's dining room for the scene in
which the adult Moustafa tells the
Young Writer the story of how "this
enchanting, old ruin" fell into his
possession. The production brought in
tables and practical lights and repainted
the walls. An enormous painting in the
style of Caspar David Friedrich depicting a stag atop a craggy peak was hung
in the proscenium.
Yeoman floated three Zasa
20'x20' 30K tungsten helium balloons
over the tables for ambience. On the
floor, his keylights were 12-light Maxis
bounced off white card through a
12'x12' frame of Full Grid and
controlled with a 40-degree soft egg
crate. "For the closer shots, we put an
additional layer of diffusion between
the bounce and the diffusion," says
Prein. A Keylite 5K tungsten Illico,
China balls ranging from 250 watts to
1K, and 1K and 2K tungsten Jem Balls
provided fill and additional sculpting.
The filmmakers experimented
with dynamic lighting cues, fading
down and up as Moustafa slips in and
out of his memories. "We looked at One
from the Heart [AC Jan. '82] to see how
Vittorio Storaro [ASC, AIC] accomplished all those great lighting transitions," says Yeoman.

Top: The hotel's
main entrance
during its glory
days "between
the wars."
Bottom:
Crewmembers
deploy a
balloon light
and diffusion
beneath the
lobby's ornate
skylight.

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