The story unfolds in a fictional European country, Zubrowka, and centres around the luxurious and opulent Grand Budapest Hotel during the period between World Wars. The hotelās fastidious and legendary concierge, Gustave H., and his young lobby boy, Zero, run the hotel like clockwork, tending to the guests' needs with extreme dedication.Alpine Europe's remarkable Grand Budapest Hotel saw its glory days in the 1930s. It's in this period that new lobby boy Zero Moustafa (newcomer Tony Revolori) learns the tricks of the trade from Mr Gustave, falls in love with a baker's assistant (Ronan) and finds himself mixed up in quite an adventure.
Like so many others, I spent last monthās 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in remembrance of the Holocaust. At the time I was the U.S. Ambassador in Prague, and the filmmakers reached out to say that they were researching a movie set in the fictional land of Zubrowka (a stand in for the Czech lands) during the 1930s, concluding in 1938 and told in flashback from 1968 (two very
By Andy Crump. Published Feb 21, 2014. A new featurette for 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' introduces audiences to lead character M. Gustave, and dives into the film's crime caper plot. Previously, the trailers and teasers for Wes Anderson's latest adventure in quirky affectation - the luxuriantly titled The Grand Budapest Hotel - have taken pains
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