Portal:The Grand Budapest Hotel project

The Grand Budapest Hotel project is an independent, single-author project by the wiki user Erik. Started in September 2024, it aims to create a fictional world similar to what is featured in the 2014 film The Grand Budapest Hotel by American director and auteur Wes Anderson. Artistic liberties has been taken by the author in order to bring the fictional story and its settings into the 21st century. Although the project aims to adhere to the names, places, descriptions, and characters within the film, many details are not elaborated or expanded upon, and requires assumptions to be made. Such assumptions are also listed on this page. The source material used in this project includes the film itself, the book The Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel and The Wes Anderson Collection by Matt Zoller Seitz, Designing Graphic Props for Filmmaking by Annie Atkins, theatrical property such as the Trans-Alpine Yodel featured in the film, and various interviews with Anderson himself.

What the film and source material establishes

The film establishes that the story exclusively takes place in the Central European country of Zubrowka. The exact location of it is never revealed, though the position of the hotel within the "Alpine Sudetenwaltz" suggests that the country is located near the Sudetes mountain range. The language used in the film is primarily English, French, and some German. Zubrowkan langauge is never heard, though it is implied to exist. "Zubrowkian flags" are mentioned in the screenplay, but only once it is occupied by the Zig-Zag ('ZZ') armed forces. Said flag is the ZZ insignia on a black background. The flag of Zubrowka is otherwise never shown throughout the film. It established the following locations: