A Gentleman in Moscow (2024) is a British historical drama based on the eponymous novel by American writer Amor Towles

The protagonist Count Alexander Rostov (Ewan McGregor) was orphaned as a boy. As a young man he is tried by the Bolsheviks in 1922 and sentenced to house arrest. Now a ‘Former Person’, he lives in the attic of a hotel

Over the years Rostov makes friends amongst the servants and some of the hotel's regulars, even becoming a waiter.

Then in 1938 he is left in temporary care of Sofia (Beau Gadsdon), a young child. For the rest of the story he takes on the role of her parent.