Grand Budapest Hotel

A writer travels to the decadent Grand Budapest Hotel in the mountains of the Republic of Zubrowka and there he meets the owner Mr. Zero Moustafa, . Mr Moustafa invites the author to have dinner with him and he tells the story of how he became the owner of the hotel. In 1932, in the glorious days of the Grand Budapest Hotel, Zero Moustafa is hired to work as lobby boy under the command of the legendary concierge Monsieur Gustave H and becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enormous family fortune -- all against the back-drop of a suddenly and dramatically changing Continent. Superb and gloriously funny.

Director

Anderson attended the University of Texas in Austin, where he majored in philosophy. It was there that he met Owen Wilson and they soon became friends and began making short films, some of which aired on a local cable station. One of their shorts was Bottle Rocket (1994), which starred Owen and his brother Luke Wilson. The short was screened at the Sundance Film Festival, where it was successfully received, so much so that they received funding to make a feature-length version.

Bottle Rocket (1996) was not a commercial hit, but it gained a cult audience and high-profile fans, which included Martin Scorsese and Anderson quickly reveived finding for his first critcally priased movie, the quirky high school comedy, Rushmore (1998).

Success soon followed with the highly acclaimed The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), his most successful film, both critically and commercially until the recent Moonrise Kingdom (2012). The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) was regarded as something of a failure, both artistically and commercially, and The Darjeeling Limited (2007) fared little better,

In 2009, Anderson released his first children's film, with the stop-motion animation adaptation of Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr. Fox and this was followed by his most successful film to date, Moonrise Kingdom (2012)/ Many regard The Grand Budapest Hotel as the first film to demonstrate fully the early genius shown with The Royal Tennebaums.