ON SET

Photos: The Grand Budapest Hotel

Director Wes Anderson takes us down the rabbit hole of his wartime adventure.


Adrien Brody
Photographer: Martin Scali
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Wes Anderson.

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“Adrien Brody plays Madame D.’s son, Dmitri Desgoffe und Taxis; Willem Dafoe, who isn’t pictured, plays his henchman, Jopling.”

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“Adrien is with Saoirse Ronan, Zero’s love interest, Agatha—that’s a birthmark on her cheek.”

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“Tilda Swinton, whose character, Madame D., is getting into a car after her stay at the hotel. She’s afraid to leave the Grand Budapest and her beloved concierge, M. Gustave H.”

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“F. Murray Abraham, who plays Zero as an older man years later, in 1968. By then, he has become the mysterious owner of the Grand Budapest Hotel.”

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“Tilda, as the elderly Madame D. Tilda put on her lipstick in three brisk strokes: two on the top lip, one across the bottom. She said it was her grandmother’s system.”

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Jude Law and Jason Schwartzman.

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“Jeff Goldblum as Deputy Vilmos Kovacs, the most prominent attorney in fictional Nebelhorn, Zubrowka.”

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“Dmitri’s three sisters, who always talk simultaneously. I think of their costumes as sort of Czech-style.”

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“Ralph Fiennes as head concierge M. Gustave H. and Tony Revolori as his lobby boy, Zero.”

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“Léa Seydoux, who plays a maid, and the wonderful Mathieu Amalric as Serge X, dressed all in white.”