The 2023 movie Lee was filmed in London, St Stephen’s Basilica in Budapest and Kupari Tourist Resort, Dubrovnik.
Kate Winslet as WWII photographer Lee Miller, alongside Jude Law, Marion Cotillard, Andrea Riseborough and Josh O’Connor.
Inspired by the biography written by her son, Anthony Penrose (represented in the movie by Josh O’Connor), Lee follows the true story of fashion model and photographer turned war correspondent Lee Miller (Kate Winslet).
It tracks Lee, her husband Roland Penrose (Alexander Skarsgård), French Vogue fashion director Solange D’Ayen (Marion Cotillard), and British Vogue editor Audrey Withers (Andre Riseborough) along the remarkable journey that saw Lee capturing unprecedented shots of wartorn Europe.
Lee 2023 Filming Locations
The Lee Miller movie filming locations include London, Dubrovnik and Budapest. Kate Winslet was spotted in costume as the World War II correspondent in Hungary and Croatia in September and October 2022.
St Stephen’s Basilica, Budapest
St Stephen's Basilica. Slyronit, CC BY-SA 4.0
British holidaymakers spotted Kate Winslet filming around St Stephen’s Basilica in Budapest in October 2022.
Lee’s Hungarian filming location is in the historic heart of Pest, within a UNESCO World Heritage Site Buffer Zone.
Its architecture harks back to earlier times, but Hungary’s largest church may not be as old as you think it is. This church location was rebuilt after the dome collapsed in the mid-19th Century.
But it wasn’t an easy task. The reconstruction project took around half a century, finally being completed in 1905.
Kupari Tourist Resort, Dubrovnik
Kupari Hotel. Pudelek (Marcin Szala), CC BY-SA 3.0
The Lee Miller movie’s ruined city scenes were filmed at the abandoned Kupari hotel complex, just outside Dubrovnik. The Croatian shoot took place in September 2022 at the resort on the Adriatic Coast.
The beach resort’s five hotel buildings once hosted the families of Yugoslav officers, but now resembles the remains of a World War II town. The first of its five hotels, the Grand Hotel Kupari, sprang up in the early 1920s with room for 340 guests.
The Pelegrin, Goričina, Goričine II and Kupari hotels and a selection of exclusive villas were constructed in the 1960s.
But the resort’s buildings were burned down in the early 1990s during the Croatian War of Independence.