2014 1h 40m Wes Anderson

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Name: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Made in Europe, Crime
Released: 2014
Rating: 8.1
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric, Adrien Brody

★ 8.1 IMDb

Comedy Drama Made in Europe Crime

The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.

Writers Stefan Zweig, Wes Anderson, Hugo Guinness

Cast Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric, Adrien Brody

DP Robert Yeoman

Production Designer Adam Stockhausen

Music Alexandre Desplat

Essays and Criticism

On this film

The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, US/Germany) by Julian Carrington, Cinema Scope Too Pretty to Eat: The Grand Budapest Hotel by Bart Versteirt, photogénie The story behind The Grand Budapest Hotel’s ‘Boy with Apple’ painting by Louis Spong, Little White Lies

On Wes Anderson

Is This The (Hyper) Real Life? - Bright Wall/Dark Room by Marieke Pras, Bright Wall/Dark Room Wes Anderson: ‘You’re hoping for the right accident’ by Sophie Monks Kaufman, Little White Lies

In conversation with other films

Tormented Childhood by Hauvick Habechian, FIPRESCI Oscar and the Adaptation Genre by Bart Versteirt, photogénie