The film is structured like a Russian nesting doll. A young girl reads a book about a writer, who recalls his 1968 encounter with the hotel’s aging owner, Zero Moustafa, who then recounts his youthful adventures as a lobby boy in the 1930s. At its core is the friendship between Zero (Tony Revolori) and the flamboyant concierge, Monsieur Gustave H. (Ralph Fiennes). Gustave is a relic of a lost world—a world that prizes poetry, perfume, and impeccable service over politics and profit.
Ultimately, The Grand Budapest Hotel is an elegy. The glorious hotel of the 1930s is run-down by the 1960s; the vibrant society that sustained it has been flattened by war and ideology. Gustave H. dies fighting for his principles (and his boy), leaving Zero to preserve the hotel as a shrine to memory. the grand budapest hotel sub indo