Another NobodyEvery man in this movie has a mustache. Think about it. Not including boys like the crippled shoeshine and Otto, or all of the random extras, every substantial male character has some...

A Glimmer of CivilizationGustave is, without a doubt, the most proper, civil, eloquently spoken (if not a bit verbose), and genuine character in the film. His style of speaking is immediately capti...

The Girl with the Mexico Birthmark Seriously, did you look at it? When Gustave says that she has an "enormous birthmark the shape of Mexico over half her face," we think he's just being cleverly de...

More like Dmeantri. This guy doesn't rank very high on our Friendliness O'Meter—on a scale of one to ten he's more zero than Zero. Let's run through a quick checklist of Dmitri's actions. He kill...

Henckels is a pretty stand-up dude. He's polite, observant, and good at his job—it's just too bad that his job is being the cop who's hot on Gustave H's tail.It would be easy to make the antagoni...

Gustave might call him a "frightened little yellow-bellied coward" and a "swamp rat" with a "basic lack of moral fiber," but, to us, Serge X. seems like a pretty good guy. Sure, he falsely testifie...

Ah yes, our esteemed narrator. There really isn't much to be said about him… besides exclaiming "Ah yes, our esteemed narrator." This literary gentleman plays a pivotal—but in some ways absentâ...

Anderson isn't pulling any punches when it comes to Jopling's character (Jopling, of course, also not pulling any punches). When we first meet Jopling he punches Zero in the face and turns to face...

A top hat, round spectacles, a stylish mustache-beard combo, a cane, and even a cat-as-accessory—Kovacs is the definition of high-class. From the way he speaks, we know right away that he's an in...

"Oh, how the good die young," Gustave laments of his eighty-four year old lover. Madame Celine Villeneuve Desgoffe und Taxis' (or, you know, just Madame D.) passing shouldn't come as much of a surp...

This weirdly-hairstyled young dude is the Grand Budapest's concierge in 1968. As the Author says, he "struck one as being, at once, both lazy and, really, quite accommodating." The Author also...

"What happened, my dear Zero, is I beat the living s*** out of a sniveling little runt called Pinky Bandinski." Yup. This is how we're first introduced to Gustave's fellow inmates. Not to worry, th...

While this band of concierges functions symbolically in the film, they're also characters in their own right, so let's remind ourselves who they are. We have M. Ivan of the Excelsior Palace (p...

More specifically, Marguerite, Laetizia, and Carolina… not that it matters much. The three sisters are more of a family backdrop than real characters. They fill out the Desgoffe und Taxis family,...