Hotel Sacher (film)
Hotel Sacher is a 1939 German drama film directed by Erich Engel and starring Sybille Schmitz, Willy Birgel, and Wolf Albach-Retty.[1]
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| Directed by | Erich Engel |
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| Produced by | Walter Tjaden |
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| Edited by | René Métain |
| Music by | Willy Schmidt-Gentner |
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| Distributed by | UFA |
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Running time | 88 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | German |
The film's sets were designed by the art director Hans Ledersteger and Hans Richter. It was partly shot on location in Vienna, which had recently been taken over by Nazi Germany. Interior scenes were shot at the Rosenhügel Studios.
Plot
Shortly before the First World War at the Hotel Sacher in Vienna, a disgraced Austrian civil servant meets his ex-lover, a female Russian spy.
Cast
- Sybille Schmitz as Nadja Woroneff
- Willy Birgel as Stefan Schefczuk
- Wolf Albach-Retty as Lt. Herrngruber
- Elfriede Datzig as Frau Stoppeling
- Hedwig Bleibtreu as Anna Sacher
- Herbert Hübner as Barnoff
- Leo Peukert as Copunt Kusmin
- Karl Günther as Head of the section Erlauer
- Elfie Mayerhofer as Siddy Erlauer, singer
- Rosa Albach-Retty as Aunt Regine in the Separee with the Erlauer guests
- Olly Holzmann as Franzi
- Walter Szurovy as Herr Stoppling
- Fritz Imhoff as Portier Seidl
- Karel Stepanek as Franz
- Alfred Neugebauer as ministerial councilor
- Hans Unterkircher as Count Lagarde
- Otto Glaser
- Herta Mayen as dancer
- Elisabeth Pünkösdy
- Tibor Halmay
- Richard Waldemar as waiter Wagner
- Mihail Xantho as Dufour
- Ernst Pröckl as Government councilor Weghuber
- Fritz Puchstein
- Ernst Nadherny
- Helene Lauterböck
- Viktor Braun
- Robert Valberg
- Oskar Werner as liftboy
Reception and release
In the United States, Hotel Sacher played in a casino on 86th Street.[2] Steven Heller of the Eye Magazine called the film "joyful".[3]
References
- Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York, NY: Berghahn Books. p. 43. ISBN 1571816550. JSTOR j.ctt1x76dm6.
- "The Screen; At the 86th St. Garden Theatre At the 86th Street Casino At the Teatro Latino Music Notes". The New York Times. 10 June 1939.
- Heller, Steven (Spring 2011). "Beyond Blackletter". Eye.
- "Hotel Sacher 1939". filmhauer.net. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
Bibliography
- Kreimeier, Klaus (1999). The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918-1945. Translated by Kimber, Robert; Kimber, Rita. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN 0520220692.
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