Hotel Adlon is a 1955 West German drama film filmed in German and directed by Josef von Báky, starring Sebastian Fischer, Nelly Borgeaud and René Deltgen.[2]
Hotel Adlon | |
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Directed by | Josef von Báky |
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Produced by | Artur Brauner |
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Cinematography | Fritz Arno Wagner |
Edited by | Walter Wischniewsky |
Music by | Georg Haentzschel |
Production company | CCC Film |
Distributed by | Herzog-Filmverleih |
Release date | 1 September 1955 |
Running time | 96 minutes |
Country | West Germany |
Language | German |
It was shot at the Spandau Studios with film's sets designed by the art director Rolf Zehetbauer.
The film portrays life at the luxurious Berlin Hotel Adlon from 1907 to 1945. It was inspired by the 1955 autobiography, Hotel Adlon. Das Berliner Hotel, in dem die große Welt zu Gast war, published in English in 1960 as Hotel Adlon: The Life and Death of a Great Hotel by Hedda Adlon (1889–1967) (née Hedwig Leythen), daughter-in-law of Lorenz Adlon and Louis Adlon's father's second wife.[1][3][4][5][6][7]
Film director Percy Adlon, great-grandson of Lorenz Adlon made a documentary about the hotel called The Glamorous World of the Adlon Hotel in 1996.[3] A three-part drama mini-series set at the hotel entitled Hotel Adlon: A Family Saga [de] was broadcast on the German television station ZDF in January 2013 and a documentary Das Adlon – Die Dokumentation (The Adlon: A Documentary) was also broadcast by ZDF in January 2013.
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