The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) Movie poster and book cover compared.

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Wes Anderson, 2014

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Beware of Pity
Stefan Zweig, 1939

The Grand Budapest Hotel is a movie directed by Wes Anderson in 2014 and inspired by the book Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig, first published in 1939. The movie features Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, and others.

What users say

“The movie is better than the book”

But the book is worth reading.

The Movie is also based on

Book cover
The World of Yesterday (1942)
Book by Stefan Zweig

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RATING

8.1

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Movie Poster: The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014)

8.4

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Book Cover: Beware of Pity (Stefan Zweig, 1939)

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AUDIOBOOK

Audiobook cover of Beware of Pity, the 1939 book by Stefan Zweig.

Beware of Pity

Read by: Nicholas Boulton

Storyline

The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.

Movie vs Book

Poster of The Grand Budapest Hotel, the 2014 movie by Wes Anderson

Year

2014

Minutes

99

Movie Rate

8.10

Source: IMDb

Movie

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Country: USA

Year: 2014

Length: 1h39m

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Cover of Beware of Pity, the 1939 book by Stefan Zweig

Year

1939

Pages

353

Book Rate

8.44

S: Goodreads

Book

Beware of Pity

Original title: Ungeduld des Herzens

Country: Austria

First published in: 1939

Length: 353 pages

Genre: Fiction

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Other screen adaptations of the book

Movie poster
Beware of Pity (1946)
Movie by Maurice Elvey
Movie poster
Kysset (2022)
Movie by Bille August

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Cover of Beware of Pity, the 1939 book by Stefan Zweig

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