Hotel Adlon (film)

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Directed byJosef von Báky
Written by
Produced byArtur Brauner
Hotel Adlon
Directed byJosef von Báky
Written by
Produced byArtur Brauner
Starring
CinematographyFritz Arno Wagner
Edited byWalter Wischniewsky
Music byGeorg Haentzschel
Production
company
Distributed byHerzog Film
Release date
  • 1 September 1955 (1955-09-01)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryWest Germany
LanguageGerman

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 in West Berlin. The film's sets were 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]

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.[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.

Louis Adlon, Sr. and
second wife, Hedda Adlon

Cast

See also

  • Lorenz Adlon (1849–1921), German hotelier
  • Hotel Adlon, Berlin, Germany – built by Lorenz Adlon
  • Louis Adlon junior (1907–1947), German-American film actor in Hollywood, grandson of Lorenz
  • Pamela Adlon (born 1966), American actress, daughter-in-law of Percy

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