Maps of Movies
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Where The Grand Budapest Hotel says it takes place, and where it was really shot.
The mountain-top hotel in the invented land of Zubrowka was really a department store, a town hall and a handful of castles in eastern Germany
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Scenes and places
The writer's shrine in the Old Lutz Cemetery
A young woman visits the Author's shrine and starts reading his novel. The book carries us back to the hotel.
Set in Old Lutz Cemetery, Zubrowka — A young woman visits the shrine of a renowned writer, known simply as Author, and opens his bestselling novel.
A cemetery in the small town of Lutz, in the invented nation of Zubrowka.
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Zero arrives as a lobby boy and learns the trade from Gustave, the concierge who charms the hotel's elderly, wealthy guests. The hotel is the world the whole story grows from.
Set in The Grand Budapest Hotel, Zubrowka — The once lavish, later drab hotel where the Author meets its proprietor, Zero Moustafa, and where in 1932 young Zero starts as a lobby boy under the concierge Monsieur Gustave H.
A grand hotel in Zubrowka, shown in a faded 1968 and a glittering 1932.
Filmed at Stadthalle Görlitz — Hotel exterior, entrance and dining room. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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Filmed at Görlitzer Warenhaus (Kaufhaus Görlitz) — The atrium served as the hotel lobby; the department store was used as a shooting location for several months. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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Madame D.'s estate, Schloss Lutz
Gustave and Zero arrive for the reading of Madame D.'s will and learn she left Gustave a famous painting. Her son is furious, and the two leave with the painting.
Set in Schloss Lutz, Zubrowka — Madame D.'s estate, where Gustave and Zero pay their respects and meet her relatives at the reading of her will.
The grand family estate in the town of Lutz.
Filmed at Schloss Hainewalde — Exterior of Schloss Lutz. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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Filmed at Schloss Waldenburg — Interiors of Schloss Lutz. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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Checkpoint 19 prison and the escape
Arrested for murder, Gustave wins over the hardened inmates and plans a break-out with tools smuggled inside pastries. Zero stays loyal on the outside.
Set in Checkpoint 19 prison, Zubrowka — Gustave is arrested on suspicion of murder, befriends a gang in prison, and they dig their way out.
A grim fortress prison run by Zubrowka's authorities.
Filmed at Burg Kriebstein — Exterior of the Checkpoint 19 prison. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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Filmed at Schloss Osterstein, Zwickau — Interiors of the prison. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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Mendl's pastries
Agatha bakes the pastries that hide the tools for Gustave's escape, with Zero as the go-between. Their small plan keeps Gustave alive.
Set in Mendl's bakery, Zubrowka — The bakery where Agatha, Zero's girlfriend, makes the pastries that carry digging tools to Gustave.
A pastry shop whose boxes are famous in the film.
Filmed at Pfunds Molkerei, Dresden — Interior of Mendl's bakery. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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The cliff chase
Gustave dangles off a cliff while Jopling closes in. Zero has to act fast to save his friend.
Set in Cliff above the Zubrowkan mountains — After a chase, Gustave dangles off a cliff at the mercy of the killer Jopling.
A mountain cliff in Zubrowka.
Filmed at Bastei, Saxon Switzerland — The Basteibrücke area is named as a shooting location; that it is the cliff scene is an inference. The coordinate is the Bastei rock, not the bridge. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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The train journey
The three friends ride a train through Zubrowka until soldiers stop them and ask for Zero's papers. Gustave steps in to protect him.
Set in A train in Zubrowka — Zero, Gustave and Agatha travel by train and meet thuggish soldiers who try to arrest Zero.
A railway line in the hills of Zubrowka.
Filmed at Brauner Hirsch, Görlitz — The monastery Google Maps · Apple Maps
Filmed at Zwinger, Dresden — City streets and courtyards Google Maps · Apple Maps
Filmed at Personenaufzug, Bad Schandau — Cable lift Google Maps · Apple Maps
Characters
- Monsieur Gustave H. — The philandering concierge of the Grand Budapest Hotel.
- Zero Moustafa — A young refugee who starts as the hotel's lobby boy.
- Agatha — Mendl's apprentice baker and Zero's girlfriend.
- The Author — A writer whose novel retells the hotel's story.