The Grand Budapest Hotel

A murder case of Madam D. With enormous wealth and the most outrageous events surrounding her sudden death!

2014Comedy, Drama
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Overview

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.

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Director Wes Anderson
Runtime 1 h 40 min
Release Date 26 February 2014
Actors
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Tony Revolori, Mathieu Amalric, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Uwe Holoubek, Harvey Keitel, Jude Law, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Saoirse Ronan, Jason Schwartzman, Léa Seydoux, Tilda Swinton, Tom Wilkinson, Owen Wilson, Florian Lukas, Bob Balaban, Fisher Stevens, Wallace Wolodarsky, Waris Ahluwalia, Larry Pine, Karl Markovics, Volker Michalowski, Daniel Steiner, Hendrik von Bültzingslöwen, Lisa Kreuzer, Rainer Reiners, Sabine Urig, Matthias Matschke, Philipp Sonntag, Hans Martin Stier, Giselda Volodi, Neal Huff, Steffen Scheumann, Milton Welsh, Piet Paes, Michaela Caspar, Heike Hanold-Lynch, Roy Macready, Carl Sprague, Golo Euler, Roman Berger, Michael Benthin, Lucas Hedges, Wolfgang Ceczor, Georg Tryphon, Gabriel Rush, Hannes Wegener, Gerald Sullivan, Ben Howard, Marko Dyrlich, Jella Niemann, Marcel Mazur, Robert Bienas, Oliver Claridge, Bernhard Kremser, Kunichi Nomura, Sister Anna Rademacher, Heinz-Werner Jeschkowski, Sabine Euler, Renate Klein, Paul Schlase, Darin Damjanow, Dar Ronge, Robin Hurlstone, Jutta Westphal, Gisela Bech, Birgit Müller, Ursula Kuhnt, Monika Krüger, Wolfram Nielacny, John Peet, Jürgen Schwämmle, Frank Jacob, Lennart Meyer, Alfred Hänel, Manpreet Gerlach, David Adamik, Moritz Hepper, David Cioffi, Oliver Hazell, Bohumil Váchal, Ed Munro, Francesco Zippel, Enrico Hoffmann, Marie Goyette, Jeno Orosz, Gyula Lukács, Georg Rittmannsperger, Dirk Bossmann, Arwin Lobedann, Matthias Holfert, Reinhold Hegelow, Steffen Nixdorf, Manfred Lindner

I see how Wes Anderson wanted to repeat the success of Moonrise Kingdom and how this movie had a lot of potential. But the main problem is that the story doesn’t stand on its own. It is lost between Anderson’s previous work and money-generating action/crime/adventure genres.

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