The film "Grand Budapest Hotel": actors and roles, a short story

Enchanting and dynamic, romantic and cynical at the same time - all this about the feature film "Hotel Grand Budapest". The actors fit into a grand act on the screen: on whomever take a look - the star. Characteristic and very vivid characters even after an episodic appearance on the screen remain in memory for a long time. But for one of the brightest representatives of independent cinema, not only in the US, but in the world, Wes Anderson, the picture became a stellar hour. The unique and unique author's style, the ability to show serious joking, the ability to translate his own universe on the screen and immerse the viewer in an amazing and sometimes fantastic world - all this was reflected in the film in full.

Briefly about the plot

The film "Grand Budapest Hotel" (actors and roles are discussed further in the text of the article) is based on the stories of Austrian critic and writer Stefan Zweig. Actions unfold in a nonexistent European country Zubrovka. The narrative is conducted from the first person, the unknown writer tells the viewer a story from his distant youth. Once he had to stop at the famous Grand Budapest Hotel. It is here that he manages to learn about the incredible events that occurred in the hotel between the two world wars, from the mysterious owner.

In the hotel, under a strange coincidence, an elderly and very rich guest dies - Madame D., who has been friends with the concierge for many years. It is to him that she bequeaths a valuable picture "A Boy with an Apple". The son of an aristocrat does not agree and accuses the concierge of murder.

"Grand Budapest Hotel": actors - Ralph Fiennes

The manager of the hotel, Monsieur Gustav, performed by the brilliant Rafe Fiennes is impeccable. The role is as if created for the actor, however, there is information that the image was really created specifically for him. Refined and refined, charming and extremely loving with respect to elderly ladies, he ruled the hotel with power and severity, holding everyone in what they called a " javelin mittens." The creator of the film, W. Anderson in one of the interviews says that Fiennes is a unique actor, without a comic role, nevertheless able to be completely different, including ridiculous.

Zero Mustafa - Tony Rebolori and F. Murray Abraham

The boy is a corridor, and in the future the person who owns the Grand Budapest Hotel. Actors for the role of Zero Mustafa are chosen flawlessly. The young corridor was performed by 18-year-old American of Guatemalan origin Tony Revolori. Perhaps, this is his first so serious and significant role, and even surrounded by Hollywood stars. In the plot, he is almost invisible, a quiet and modest guy, madly in love with the girl Agatha. From a simple corridor he first becomes Gustav's henchman, and then his friend and accomplice. Excellent acting duo and impeccable game.

Zero Mustafa, who became the owner of the hotel and chatting with an unknown writer, was played by American actor F.M. Abraham.

Agatha - Sirsha Ronan

The role of beloved Zero Mustafa beauty Agatha with a noticeable scar on her cheek was performed by young and promising Irish actress Sirsha Ronan. She magnificently embodied on the screen the image of a timid and at the same time brave girl who is ready for anything for the sake of love and her fiance. She fearlessly helps him in the venture with the escape from Mr. Gustav's prison and subsequently marries.

Madame D. - Tilda Swinton

Unusual, bright, talented - all these epithets can be bestowed on British actress Tilda Swinton, known for her participation mainly in independent films, as well as in some projects of Hollywood. She got an episodic, but very colorful role in the film "Hotel Grand Budapest" (actors and photos are presented in the article) - Madame D., in fact, the same 84-year old lady, with whom all this crazy mess began with the legacy and Picture. It should be noted absolutely amazing age make-up, which was applied before shooting for several hours. The director of the picture remained in complete satisfaction from the game and absolute admiration from the actress herself, calling her a fantastically charming personality, intelligent and intelligent, a professional in her business, who can do any image.

Other actors of the film "Hotel Grand Budapest" »

It is difficult to name secondary roles in the film, because all of them, like fragments of bright mosaic, are necessary and create the integrity of the perception of the picture. Staying on the screen even a minimal amount of time, they are remembered for a long time by the viewer.

The eccentric and gloomy couple - Dmitry (son of Madame D.) and the hired killer hired by him, are beyond praise (pictured above). A hysterical, greedy and cruel aristocrat is embodied on the screen by Adrien Brody. The American actor and producer, having the role of a melancholic intellectual, this time chose the cardinally opposite image and coped with it perfectly. Willem Dafoe is a bounty hunter and the main villain in the film "Grand Budapest Hotel". The actors composed a couple of antagonists Gustavu and Zero.

American actor Edward Norton, familiar to the viewer on the film "Fight Club" and being the three-time nominee for the Oscar, plays the role of inspector Henkels: an unruffled lawyer. It is impossible not to notice Jeff Goldblum in the episodic, but very interesting role of the attorney in the affairs of Madame D. (pictured).

In addition, the film was attended by Jude Law (writer), Leah Seydou (maid), Owen Wilson and Bill Murray (Monsieur Chuck and Ivan).

Critics almost unanimously put the highest appreciation of the picture "Hotel" Grand Budapest "». Actors and roles are chosen flawlessly, a famous star composition and a great script, professional and original work of the operators, all this makes us forget about time and plunge into the world of pre-war Europe, which will never be the same.