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Page Six points us over to a post on Budapest blog Pestiside.hu, which details how Steven Spielberg's shoot for Munich (the city is standing in for Italy and Paris) is doing its best to teach the locals how lucky they are that Hollywood has chosen to bring movie magic to their budget-friendly home:

As the shooting began, we started to lighten up a bit. After all, one does have to accept a bit of "collateral difficulty" when so many people are working so hard (and spending so much!) to tell an important story. Even if, you know, it's likely to be just another big-budget B movie, like Spielberg's most recent effort. That is, until we took out our camera and tried to take a snapshot, and were set upon by a pack of goons. The censors - including a very rude man by the name of Alberto Boggiano (left) - who works for something called Westlake Films - told us we had no right to take pictures on the very street we live on, as Spielberg had "bought" it.

When we declined to put away our camera, the rent-a-thugs called in the police, who sighed and politely suggested that we move along.

So it is this sprit of openness, and friendship among nations that we offer you the following exclusive, unauthorized pictures from the Budapest set of "Munich," taken by a Pestiside contributor/informant from the top floor of a neighboring building. As for the great auteur (follow the red arrow), we'll just say this: Thanks for the memories, Steve, and we look forward to seeing your upcoming blockbuster - at home, on a pirated DVD.

See? The production and the locals are getting along swimmingly. Any confrontation that doesn't end in an exchange of tear gas canisters and Molotov cocktails is a promising one.

Also: Blogger Rick Bruner has some more pics of the Budapest shoot at Flikr.