![]() ![]() ![]() He develops relationships with a high-ranking Soviet official, a haughty actress, a cantankerous cook and an impeccable waiter. As the weeks turn into months and the months into years, the count finds ways to adapt to his situation and to the changing political situation. But the arrival of another girl to the hotel turns the count’s life upside down and gives it meaning in an entirely new way. Rather than feeling cut off from the outside world, Count Alexander discovers that through the doors of the hotel the world comes to him. Count Alexander resolves to live out his imprisonment with the dignity, courtesy and self-discipline of a true gentleman.Īt first, the count struggles to fill his days with meaning, but a chance encounter with a precocious 9-year-old girl helps him see the opportunities that await him. His sentence: either remain under house arrest in the Hotel Metropol or be shot. Count Alexander Rostov is found guilty of a heinous crime: being an aristocrat in 1922 during the Russian Revolution. ![]()
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