The Million Dollar Hotel

Movie
German title	The Million Dollar Hotel
Original title	The Million Dollar Hotel
Country of production	Germany , Great Britain , USA
original language	English
Publishing year	2000
length	118 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Wim Wenders
script	Bono , Nicholas Klein
production	Bono, Bruce Davey , Nicholas Klein, Deepak Nayar , Wim Wenders
music	Bono, Daniel Lanois
camera	Phedon Papamichael
cut	Tatiana S. Riegel
occupation
Jeremy Davies : Tom Tom Milla Jovovich : Eloise Mel Gibson : Agent Skinner Jimmy Smits : Geronimo Peter Stormare : Dixie Amanda Plummer : Vivien Gloria Stuart : Jessica Tom Bower : Hector Donal Logue : Charley Best Bud Cort : Shorty Julian Sands : Terence Scopey Conrad Roberts : Stix Harris Yulin : Stanley Goldkiss Richard Edson : Joe Tim Roth : Izzy

The Million Dollar Hotel is a thriller from Wim Wenders from the year 2000 .

action

The son of a wealthy media mogul, Israel Goldkiss (Izzy for short), commits suicide in a run-down hotel in Los Angeles . When his father suspects a murder case, FBI investigator Skinner is hired to investigate the matter.

Skinner is known for very unconventional methods. All hotel residents are suspect, including Tom Tom, the mentally retarded friend of the deceased, from whose perspective the story is told. But when he accuses himself to protect Eloise, with whom he fell in love, Skinner doesn't believe him.

When Geronimo, another hotel resident, is arrested, Tom Tom publicly pleads guilty on television. He goes into hiding, hides in the hotel and plans to leave town with Eloise. Tom tells Eloise that he just didn't stop his friend from throwing himself off the roof of the hotel. Later he himself jumps off the hotel roof and dies. On the street, the grieving Eloise meets Skinner, who hugs her.

Reviews

Janet Branagan wrote on www.apolloguide.com that the film does not fulfill what 'big names' like Mel Gibson, Milla Jovovich and Bono promise.

“After a furious beginning with great suggestive visual power, an increasingly disappointing attempt to fuse German auteur cinema with American screen myths. Instead of getting involved in a dramaturgy like a chamber play, the film loses itself more and more in nebulous universality. "

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

The film won the Silver Bear at the Berlinale 2000 and was nominated for the Golden Bear . He was also nominated for the German Film Prize in 2000 (Best Film, Best Director). The cameraman Phedon Papamichael was nominated for the Polish Camerimage.

backgrounds

The idea for this film came to Bono, singer from U2, while filming the music video ' Where the Streets Have No Name ', which took place in 1987 on the roof of the Roslyn Million Dollar Hotel in Los Angeles . In 1992 Mel Gibson secured the rights to the script. Gary Oldman , who was supposed to play Tom Tom, worked on the project from time to time . Oldman got out of the project due to the controversy over the person of the director.

Web links

• The Million Dollar Hotel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The Million Dollar Hotel at filmportal.de
• Film review by Stefan Steinberg (wsws.org)
• The Million Dollar Hotel at Metacritic (English)
• The Million Dollar Hotel atRotten Tomatoes(English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Release Certificate for The Million Dollar Hotel . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2012 (PDF; test number: 83 989 V).
2. ^ The Million Dollar Hotel. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 7, 2017 .