The Grand Budapest Hotel - Trailer

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While preparing to film 'The Grand Budapest Hotel', director Wes Anderson and company scouted for locations, finding an abandoned shopping centre which they converted into the lobby of the hotel. The exterior of the hotel was primarily shot through the use of miniatures, as were certain action sequences from the film. The minute detail was continued into the creation of costumes for the extras, as each one was supposedly created to have their own entire backstory. Furthermore, the setting for 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' is the fictional Republic of Zubrowka. This, too, was created in detail, with various passports, newspapers and small businesses that were designed with a tremendous amount of detail.

'The Grand Budapest Hotel' stars Ralph Fines as Monsieur Gustave H. - the concierge of the titular hotel. When a lover of Gustave passes away, he travels with his new bell-boy Zero Moustafa (Tony Revolori) to attend the reading of her will. When her mad, murderous children object to his arrival, Gustave and Zero have to travel across the Republic of Zubrowka in order to find a secret second will, and keep themselves alive. 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' was released on 7th March 2014.