<P> In the present day , a teenage girl approaches a statue in a courtyard . In her arms is a memoir by `` The Author . '' She begins reading about a trip he made to the Grand Budapest Hotel in the late 1960s . He discovered that the nearly deserted hotel , located in the Republic of Zubrowka , a nation ravaged by war and poverty , had fallen on hard times and become dilapidated . The Author meets Zero Moustafa , the hotel 's owner , who tells him over dinner the tale of how he took ownership of the Grand Budapest and why he is unwilling to close it down . </P>
<P> In the present day , a teenage girl approaches a statue in a courtyard . In her arms is a memoir by `` The Author . '' She begins reading about a trip he made to the Grand Budapest Hotel in the late 1960s . He discovered that the nearly deserted hotel , located in the Republic of Zubrowka , a nation ravaged by war and poverty , had fallen on hard times and become dilapidated . The Author meets Zero Moustafa , the hotel 's owner , who tells him over dinner the tale of how he took ownership of the Grand Budapest and why he is unwilling to close it down . </P>
where is the grand budapest hotel supposed to take place
where is the grand budapest hotel supposed to take place
Republic of Zubrowka
Republic of Zubrowka