Gentleman in Moscow –Rules of Civility
Based upon the bestseller by Amor Towles, Gentleman in Moscow tells the story of an aristocrat whose status makes him an enemy of the state, namely, Bolshevik Russia in 1918. Count Alexander Rostov (Ewan McGregor) is sentenced to a lifetime as a resident in the Metropol Hotel in Moscow, narrowly escaping execution during Stalin’s reign of terror.
Confined to the walls of the Metropol, the Count– a single, highly entitled but lonely man,– is relegated to a threadbare attic room, without his sumptuous possessions or his much-cherished status as a member of the elite ruling...