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Hotel Adlon (film)
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox film
| name = Hotel Adlon
| image = Hotel Adlon film.jpg
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| director = Josef von Bky
| producer = Artur Brauner
| writer =
| narrator =
| starring =
| music = Georg Haentzschel
| cinematography = Fritz Arno Wagner
| editing = Walter Wischniewsky
| studio = CCC Film
| distributor = Herzog-Filmverleih
| released = 1 September 1955
| runtime = 96 minutes
| country = West Germany
| language = German
| budget =
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'Hotel Adlon' is a 1955 West German drama film filmed in German and directed by Josef von Bky, starring Sebastian Fischer, Nelly Borgeaud and Ren Deltgen.Frodon p. 167
It was shot at the Spandau Studios with film's sets designed by the art director Rolf Zehetbauer.
Portrayal
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 groe Welt zu Gast war', published in English in 1960 as 'Hotel Adlon: The Life and Death of a Great Hotel' by Hedda Adlon (18891967) (ne Hedwig Leythen), daughter-in-law of Lorenz Adlon and Louis Adlon's father's second wife.
Other Portrayals
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. A three-part drama mini-series set at the hotel entitled ' 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.
Cast
* Sebastian Fischer as Paul Rippert
* Nelly Borgeaud as Ninette
* Ren Deltgen as Gravic
* Werner Hinz as Lorenz Adlon
* Nadja Tiller as Mabel
* Erich Schellow as Louis Adlon
* Karl John as Herr von Malbrand
* Peter Mosbacher as Herr Andrewski
* Lola Mthel as Nina
* Hans Caninenberg as Direktor Jansen
* Walter Bluhm as Solicitor
* Arno Paulsen as Doorman
* Kurt Buecheler
* Stanislav Ledinek
* Helmuth Lohner
* Ralph Lothar
* Werner Peters
* Ewald Wenck
* Claude Farell
* Lori Leux
* Harry Giese
See also
* Lorenz Adlon (18491921), German hotelier
* Hotel Adlon, Berlin, Germany built by Lorenz Adlon
* Louis Adlon (19081947), German-American film actor in Hollywood, grandson of Lorenz
* Percy Adlon (born 1935, Munich), German film producer, cousin of Louis
* Pamela Adlon (born 1966), American actress, daughter-in-law of Percy
References
Bibliography
* Frodon, Jean-Michel. 'Cinema and the Shoah'. SUNY Press, 2010.
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