History of Budapest shot them along the banks of the Danube and threw their bodies into the river. Soviet forces captured Budapest on February 13, 1945. More than 100,000 Jews remained in the city at time of capture. Upon retreating, the Germans also blew up all the Danube bridges as a way of hampering the progress of the Communist Red Army of the Soviets. A two-month-long siege of Budapest reduced the entire city, but mostly the Castle District to rubble, as it was assigned to the mostly Hungarian army with German leadership to defend and to "hold back". Most roofs in Budapest were
Budapest set in Budapest are "Kontroll", "The District!", "Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod", "Sunshine", "An American Rhapsody", "As You Desire Me", "The Good Fairy", "Hanna's War", "The Journey", "Ladies in Love", "Mehbooba", "Music Box", "The Shop Around the Corner", "Zoo in Budapest", "Underworld", "" and Spy. "The Grand Budapest Hotel" (2014) is a Wes Anderson film. It was filmed in Germany and set in the fictional Republic of Zubrowka which is in the alpine mountains of Hungary. Budapest hosted many global sport event in the past, among others the 1994 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, 1997 World Amateur Boxing Championships,