The Grand Budapest Hotel
A teenage girl visits the monument of the writer who penned the
book, "The Grand Budapest Hotel". In 1968, that author was inspired to
write the book when he visited that hotel, located in the European mountainous
country formerly known as Zubrowka. Once a luxurious hotel, it, in 1968, has
fallen on hard times. The author meets the then current owner, M. Zero
Moustafa, who recounts the story of how he became the hotel's owner and why he
holds onto it and keeps it open despite it obviously making him no money.
Zero's story begins in 1932, when the hotel was in its golden era. Zero was the
novice immigrant lobby boy, who, like all the other hotel staff, was under the
guidance of M. Gustave H., the devoted concierge.
Gustave aimed to please, he giving the guests whatever they wanted,
especially the wealthy blonde women. The story largely revolves around one of
those women, the wealthy Madame Céline Villeneuve Desgoffe-und-Taxis - better
known as Mme. D. - her opportunistic son Dimitri, the bequeathing of a valuable
painting called "Boy with Apple" to Gustave, the mysterious
circumstances surrounding her death which is initially pinned on Gustave, and
the attempts of Zero, his girlfriend - a baker's assistant named Agatha - and
others to clear Gustave's name while Dimitri does whatever he needs to get what
he believes is rightfully his, namely the painting.
