Behind the scenes with Peter Strickland on The Duke of Burgundy

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Exclusive photographs taken during the Hungary location shoot and production of Peter Strickland’s dazzling new film The Duke of Burgundy, in cinemas from 20 February.

Chiara D’Anna on screen as Evelyn during the colour grading of Peter Strickland’s The Duke of Burgundy (2014). The film was graded by Greg Fisher at Company 3 London.
Director Peter Strickland explores the city of Sopron, Hungary, where some of the film was shot
Actor Chiara D’Anna (Evelyn) on location. The film’s costumes were designed by Andrea Flesch, whose previous credits include Peter Greenaway’s multimedia series The Tulse Luper Suitcases (2003-04).
Filming the woodland scenes on the outskirts of Budapest
Chiara D’Anna during the shoot of the woodland scenes
The Duke of Burgundy study set. The pinned insect specimens and cabinets were loaned from the Entomology Collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum’s Department of Zoology.
Director of photography Nic Knowland positions the ‘dingle’. ‘Dingle’ is a colloquialism for ‘stuff shoved in front of a lens’. 
The crew watches as Chiara D’Anna cycles down a paved street in Sopron
Strickland on a recce in Budapest to find a lecture hall for the lepidoptery class scenes
Script supervisor Carole Salisbury on set in Sopron
Sidse Babett Knudsen (Cynthia) at the house location for the first time
Producer Andy Starke with Sidse Babett Knudsen
Production designer Pater Sparrow designed a number of books for the character of Cynthia to study, including this tome Orthopterid Acoustics and Other Sonic Anomalies by Dr Brigitte Roesel.
Sidse Babett Knudsen (Cynthia) between takes
Photograph by sound recordist Rob Entwistle of Strickland reading the script between takes
The camera team: director of photography Nic Knowland, Dániel Benkó, Robert Dibble (focus puller), Peter Strickland and first assistant director Judit Soltész
Nearing the end of the shoot – the clapperboard is marked up for scene 130
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