Jozi Film Festival announces the Sou African premiere of Wes Anderson s the GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL

The film recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enormous family fortune.

Director Wes Anderson says his eighth feature film comes from a mix of inspirations including the pre-code comedies of the 1930s and the stories and memoirs of Viennese writer Stefan Zweig.

I had an idea with my friend Hugo, recalls Anderson of the scripts beginnings. He and I had talked for some years about a character inspired by a friend of ours, an exceptionally, supremely charming person with a unique and wonderful way with words and a very special view of life. Someone unlike anyone else we know in the world. Then, separately, I had this thought to make a kind of a European movie - inspired especially by Stefan Zweig, a writer who Ive come to really love in the last several years. There were some other things that I was reading that might not seem connected to this movie, like Hannah Arendts Eichmann in Jerusalem, which had very little directly to do with this, but it contains a fascinating analysis of how each country in Europe responded to the Nazis, and how the whole place came unglued; as well as Suite Fran aise by Ir ne N mirovsky. Those were some of the things I started with, and I mixed them with the idea that Hugo and I had about this friend of ours. And that's what this movie is, sort of, in a way.

Anderson set his tale in a fictional spa town in the imaginary country of alpine Zubrowka, for which he created not only a complete visual aesthetic but also a cohesive 20th Century history mirroring Eastern Europe, with a fascist takeover in the thirties and a Communist period after that - but also a more distant past in the vein of the belle epoque.

Starring Ralph Fiennes, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Harvey Keitel, Jude Law, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Saoirse Ronan, Tilda Swinton, Tom Wilkinson, Owen Wilson to name a few.

Some of Andersons other films include The Royal Tenenbaums, The Aquatic Life with Steve Zissou, The Darjeeling Limited and most recently, Moonrise Kingdom.

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