The Grand Budapest Hotel is an extremely funny film, though the humor may have you chuckling mutedly, one eyebrow arched, rather than guffawing. It’s also a very sad film, charged with a nostalgic melancholy that is part of its very structure. This is a film about the past, the disappearance of societies and times, and the fragility of memoryThe Grand Budapest Hotel film location: the exterior of the Gorlitzer Warenhaus, Gorlitz, Germany | Photograph: wikimedia / Manecke. The Hotel’s pink birthday-cake exterior, with its funicular railway, is unashamedly a model, but the main location, its expansive fin-de-siecle, lobby is real.
The crew also scouted real hotels for ideas, one of the richest sources of which was the Grandhotel Pupp in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. The 228-room hotel was built in 1701, and has a red-carpeted lobby bar and a flagship restaurant that are directly reminiscent of the Grand Budapest's.
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