best-selling novel<\/a> of the same name by Amor Towles, the eight-part series sees McGregor don an extravagant moustache to play the fictional Count Alexander Rostov \u2013 an aristocrat who finds himself on the \u201cwrong side of history\u201d after the Russian Revolution.<\/p>\nThe trailer begins with the character being asked to state his name and occupation by a tribunal, before he responds: \u201cIt is not the business of gentlemen to have occupations.\u201d<\/p>\n
That answer unsurprisingly doesn\u2019t go down very well, and he is told that his class is a \u201cthreat against Russia\u201d, and that he will therefore be sentenced to live the rest of his days at the Hotel Metropol.<\/p>
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The trailer then picks up four years into his sentence, as he explains how times have changed since the revolution, with most of his friends now dead and his house seized and burned, before we see him befriend a young girl called Nina (Alexa Goodall), who owns a key that can open every door in the hotel, and a glamorous actress named Anna Urbanova (Winstead).<\/p>\n
These encounters appear to renew Rostov\u2019s spirit, although he is repeatedly warned against doing anything too risky given he is still a prisoner.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey can take away your house, they can take away everything, but they can\u2019t take away who you are,\u201d he defiantly states at the end.<\/p>\n
You can watch the trailer in full below.<\/p>\n