BY STEPHEND ZWIFT FREE . The Grand Budapest Hotel Theatrical release poster, featuring the principal cast on a key card–hotel mailroom motif. The words "The Grand Budapest Hotel" are written in the foreground, superimposed on a dusk shot of the namesake building. Theatrical release poster Directed by Wes Anderson Screenplay by Wes Anderson Story by Wes Anderson Hugo Guinness Produced by Wes Anderson Scott Rudin Steven Rales Jeremy Dawson Starring Ralph Fiennes F. Murray Abraham Mathieu Amalric Adrien Brody Willem Dafoe Jeff Goldblum Harvey Keitel Jude Law Bill Murray Edward Norton Saoirse Ronan Jason Schwartzman Léa Seydoux Tilda Swinton Tom Wilkinson Owen Wilson Tony Revolori Cinematography Robert Yeoman Edited by Barney Pilling Music by Alexandre Desplat Production companies Fox Searchlight Pictures TSG Entertainment[1] Indian Paintbrush Studio Babelsberg American Empirical Pictures Distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures Release dates February 6, 2014 (Berlin) March 6, 2014 (Germany) March 7, 2014 (United States) Running time 100 minutes[2] Countries United States[2] Germany[2] Language English Budget $25 million[3] Box office $172.9 million[3] The Grand Budapest Hotel is a 2014 comedy-drama film written and directed by Wes Anderson. Ralph Fiennes leads a seventeen-actor ensemble cast as Monsieur Gustave H., famed concierge of a twentieth-century mountainside resort in the fictional country of Zubrowka.