The Grand Budapest Hotel

Why watch

Starlit Cine editors

• Best for fans of comedies with a distinctive visual style, written and directed by Wes Anderson.
• Ralph Fiennes plays a hotel manager accused of murder.
• Inspired by the works of Stefan Zweig; fairly short at about 1 hour 39 minutes.

Synopsis

The Grand Budapest Hotel is a 2014 comedy-drama film written and directed by Wes Anderson. The film's seventeen-actor ensemble cast is led by Ralph Fiennes as Monsieur Gustave H., famed concierge of a twentieth-century mountainside resort in the fictional country of Zubrowka. After being framed for the murder of a wealthy dowager, he and his recently befriended protégé Zero embark on a quest for fortune and a priceless Renaissance painting amidst the backdrop of an encroaching fascist regime. Anderson's American Empirical Pictures produced the film in association with Studio Babelsberg, Fox Searchlight Pictures, and Indian Paintbrush's Scott Rudin and Steven Rales. Fox Searchlight supervised the commercial distribution, and The Grand Budapest Hotel's funding came from Indian Paintbrush and German government-funded tax rebates.

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Director & cast

• W

  Wes Anderson

  Director

• R

  Ralph Fiennes

  Monsieur Gustave H.

• T

  Tony Revolori

  Zero Moustafa

• S

  Saoirse Ronan

  Agatha

• E

  Edward Norton

  Albert Henckels

• J

  Jude Law

  the young Author

• O

  Owen Wilson

  M. Chuck

• T

  Tilda Swinton

  Madame D.

• W

  Willem Dafoe

  J. G. Jopling