Görlitz Department Store- the Most Cinematic Shop
Görlitz department store is one of the city’s mostbeautiful buildings of the early XX century. It was built in 1913 on the siteof the hotel of the XVIII century by the example of the Wertheim departmentstore at Leipziger Platz Square in Berlin Leipziger Platz). Architect Carl Schmannsdesigned it in the Art Nouveau style with a light metal frame. In 1984 thebuilding was renovated, and in the mid-2000s it was abandoned, and passed fromhand to hand several times.
In 2013, thevacant five-story building of Görlitz department store with a huge atriumattracted the attention of director Wes Anderson and his cameraman Robert Yeoman.The film crew turned the interior of the store into the lobby of thefashionable "The Grand Budapest Hotel" in the 1930s and 1960s. Mostof the film was shot in Görlitz. The film stars- Ralph Fiennes, Tilda Swintonand Willem Dafoe - lived 10 minutes away from the department store at Hotel Börse.The film "The Grand Budapest Hotel" was awarded four Oscars.
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