
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.
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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

Year
2014
Minutes
99
Movie Rate
8.10
Source: IMDb
Movie
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Director: Wes Anderson
Country: USA
Year: 2014
Length: 1h39m
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Year
1939
Pages
353
Book Rate
8.44
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Book
Beware of Pity
Original title: Ungeduld des Herzens
Author: Stefan Zweig
Country: Austria
First published in: 1939
Length: 353 pages
Genre: Fiction
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Movie by Bille August
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“The movie will never be as good as the book, both because the book goes on longer and because books are internal.”
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