Hotel Adlon (film)

Hotel Adlon
Hotel Adlon
Directed by	Josef von Báky
Written by	Hedda Adlon; Emil Burri; Johannes Mario Simmel;
Produced by	Artur Brauner
Starring	Sebastian Fischer; Nelly Borgeaud; René Deltgen;
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

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]

It was shot at the Spandau Studios with film's sets designed by the art director Rolf Zehetbauer.

Portrayal[edit]

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]

Other Portrayals[edit]

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.

Cast[edit]

Sebastian Fischer as Paul Rippert
Nelly Borgeaud as Ninette
René 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 Müthel 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

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b Adlon, Hedda (30 December 1994). Hotel Adlon. Heyne. ISBN 9783453009264 – via Google Books.
^ Frodon p. 167
^ ^a ^b "The Glamorous World of the Adlon Hotel" – via www.imdb.com.
^ "Adlon, Hedda [WorldCat Identities]". www.worldcat.org. Archived from the original on 2021-05-03. Retrieved 2022-04-16.
^ "Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek". portal.dnb.de.
^ "Familien-Saga Adlon: Was ist wahr und was ist Erfindung im großen TV-Epos? - TV - Bild.de". 10 January 2013. Archived from the original on 2013-01-10.
^ Stöcker, Martina (9 January 2013). "Berliner Hotel: Die wahre Geschichte des Adlon". RP ONLINE.

Bibliography[edit]

Frodon, Jean-Michel. Cinema and the Shoah. SUNY Press, 2010.

External links[edit]

Hotel Adlon at IMDb

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[auto-1] Adlon, Hedda (30 December 1994). Hotel Adlon. Heyne. ISBN 9783453009264 – via Google Books.

[2] Frodon p. 167

[tt0116623-3] "The Glamorous World of the Adlon Hotel" – via www.imdb.com.

[4] "Adlon, Hedda [WorldCat Identities]". www.worldcat.org. Archived from the original on 2021-05-03. Retrieved 2022-04-16.

[5] "Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek". portal.dnb.de.

[6] "Familien-Saga Adlon: Was ist wahr und was ist Erfindung im großen TV-Epos? - TV - Bild.de". 10 January 2013. Archived from the original on 2013-01-10.

[7] Stöcker, Martina (9 January 2013). "Berliner Hotel: Die wahre Geschichte des Adlon". RP ONLINE.

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