Kerepesi Cemetery

Kerepesi Cemetery, also known as Fiume Road Graveyard, is one of Budapest’s most important historic cemeteries. Opened in 1847, it contains a large number of mausoleums, memorials, and monumental sculptures, and is often described as one of the city’s most significant burial grounds.

Kerepesi Cemetery appears in Dune: Part Two (2024), Red Sparrow (2018), and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008). Dune: Part Two uses the Labor Movement Mausoleum within the cemetery, Red Sparrow uses the same mausoleum area for its Moscow-set material, and IMDb lists Kerepesi Cemetery as a filming location for The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.

In Dune: Part Two (2024), the Labor Movement Mausoleum at Kerepesi Cemetery is used for the scene in which Emperor Shaddam IV receives Paul’s message. The mausoleum’s severe modernist design fits the film’s imperial setting and is used as part of the Emperor’s quarters.

In Red Sparrow (2018), the Labor Movement Mausoleum is used for the Moscow “Gorky Park” sequence in which CIA agent Nate Nash tries to meet the Russian mole known as Marble. The cemetery is therefore used not as a graveyard in the story, but as part of the film’s Soviet setting.

In The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008), Kerepesi Cemetery is listed as one of the film’s Budapest locations. Public location sources confirm the cemetery was used, although the specific scene is less clearly documented in the sources than it is for Dune: Part Two and Red Sparrow.

---