The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) on Netflix
R20141h 39mAdventureComedyDrama
In 1932, Zero Moustafa becomes a lobby boy at the Grand Budapest Hotel, where the concierge M. Gustave H. serves wealthy guests. When Madame D. dies, her will leaves Gustave a painting.
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Plot summary
A young woman visits the monument of a writer, carrying his novel, The Grand Budapest Hotel. In 1968, the author, stalled in his work, meets the owner of the faded hotel, Zero Moustafa, who tells him how he arrived as a refugee in 1932 and took a job as a lobby boy. The concierge, M. Gustave H., looks after the hotel's wealthy guests, and one of them, Madame D., has kept up an affair with him for nearly twenty years. Word arrives that she has died, and Gustave and Zero travel to her estate, where her son Dmitri and the other relatives gather for the reading of her will. The will leaves Gustave a Renaissance painting, Boy with Apple.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
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- In 2025 the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant", and it is currently the most recently released film to be chosen.
- Filmmakers held auditions in Egypt, Lebanon, Israel, France, England and the United States before revising the role's ethnicity, then narrowed the search to Tony Revolori and his older brother Mario, novices of Guatemalan descent; Tony landed the part after one taped audition.
- The creation of Boy with Apple was a four-month process by English painter Michael Taylor, who drew on Renaissance portraiture, among it Gabrielle d'Estrées et une de ses sœurs from 1594.
- Ed Munro, an actor with a theater background, sat for the painting sessions at a Jacobean boarding school in Dorset; filmmakers dressed him in about 50 ornate costumes with velvet cloaks, codpieces and furs, and he held the same posture for several hours and found the costuming uncomfortable.
- All the cast were the filmmakers' first choices save for Swinton, whom they pursued for Madame D. when Angela Lansbury dropped out as a result of a prior commitment to a Driving Miss Daisy theater production.
- Weisse and his propmakers built three major miniature models for the film: the 1/8-scale forest set, the 1/12-scale observatory and the 1/18-scale Grand Budapest Hotel, all based on art director Carl Sprague's conceptual renderings.
