The Grand Budapest Hotel

The Grand Budapest Hotel is a 2014 comedy-drama film written, directed, and co-produced by Wes Anderson. Ralph Fiennes leads a seventeen-actor ensemble cast as Monsieur Gustave H., famed concierge of a twentieth-century mountainside resort in the fictional Eastern European country of Zubrowka. When Gustave is framed for the murder of a wealthy dowager (Tilda Swinton), he and his recently befriended protégé Zero (Tony Revolori) 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 was sourced through Indian Paintbrush and German government-funded tax rebates. Anderson and longtime collaborator Hugo Guinness conceived The Grand Budapest Hotel as a fragmented tale following a character inspired by a common friend. They initially struggled in their brainstorming, but the experience touring Europe and researching the literature of Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig shaped their vision for the film. The Grand Budapest Hotel draws visually from Europe-set mid-century Hollywood films and the United States Library of Congress's photochrom print collection of alpine resorts. Filming took place in eastern Germany from January to March 2013. French composer Alexandre Desplat composed the symphonic, Russian folk-inspired score, which expanded on his early work with Anderson. The film explores themes of fascism, nostalgia, friendship, and loyalty, and further studies analyze the function of color as an important storytelling device. The Grand Budapest Hotel premiered in competition at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival on February 6, 2014. The French theatrical release on February 26 preceded the film's global rollout, followed by releases in Germany, North America, and the United Kingdom on March 6–7. The Grand Budapest Hotel drew highly positive reviews for its craftsmanship and acting, though occasional criticism centered on the film's approach to subject matter, fragmented storytelling, and characterization. It earned $174 million in box office revenue worldwide, Anderson's highest-grossing feature to date. The film was nominated for nine awards at the 87th Academy Awards including Best Picture, winning four, and received numerous other accolades. Since its release, The Grand Budapest Hotel has been assessed as one of the greatest films of the 21st century.

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MR. MOUSTAFA: The war began at midnight. Pffeifelstad fell by lunch under heavy shelling, and 10 battalions surged across the long western border. High-command advanced to Nebelsbad.

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Compliments of Herr Mendl, for the executive staff.

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CHUCK: General Stieglitz requests a garden-view sitting room with an extra roll-away. Let's put him in the Duke Leopold Suite. Secretary Woroniecki's office cabled. He's checking in a day early. Rooms 401 -2-3. Tell Tactical Logistics we're moving them to a standard double on the third floor. They'll need more space than that.

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GUSTAVE H: The beginning of the end of the end of the beginning has begun. A sad finale played off-key on a broken-down saloon piano in the outskirts of a forgotten ghost town. I'd rather not bear witness to such blasphemy. Me neither. The Grand Budapest has become a troops' barracks. I shall never cross its threshold again in my lifetime. Me neither. Never again shall I...

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Actually, I think we might be going in there right now after all.

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Dmitri.

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Agatha.

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Good evening, Mr. Desgoffe und Taxis. I'm Monsieur Chuck. We've booked you and your sisters into the King Ferdinand Suite. Good evening. General von Shrecker asked me... Who's that? I beg your pardon? I think that girl's got my picture. Excuse me.

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AGATHA: Six. DMITRI: Hold it.

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DMITRI: Six.

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Compliments of Herr Mendl.

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GUSTAVE H: Excuse me. Have you seen a pastry girl with a package under her arm in the last minute and a half?

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Yep. She just got on the elevator with Mr. Desgoffe und Taxis. Thank you. I'm sorry. Who are you? Otto, sir, the new Lobby Boy. You haven't been trained properly. A Lobby Boy never provides information of that kind. You're a stone wall. Understood?

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Pretty picture.

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Sixth floor.

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Where's Boy with Apple?

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None of your goddamn business!

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I'm going to blast your candy-ass once and for all right now.

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Drop your weapon!

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Cease fire! Cease fire! Whoa! Stop it! Who's shooting who? That's Gustave H! The escaped murderer and art thief. I've got him cornered! That's Dmitri Desgoffe und Taxis! He's responsible for the killing of Deputy Kovacs, Serge X and his club-footed sister, plus his own mother!

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