Grand Hotel (TV series)

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Television series
German title Grand Hotel
Original title Gran Hotel
Palacio de la Magdalena.jpg
Country of production Spain
original language Spanish
Year (s) 2011-2013
length about 45 minutes
Episodes 66 in 3 or 5 seasons ( list )
genre Drama , costume drama
idea Ramón Campos,
Gema R. Neira
First broadcast October 4, 2011 (Spain) on Antena 3
German-language
first broadcast		 October 8, 2013 on Sony Entertainment Television
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Grand Hotel (original title: Gran Hotel ) is a Spanish television series that was produced from 2011 to 2013 for the television channel Antena 3 . The idea for the television series came from Ramón Campos and Gema R. Neira. It is set in a grand hotel in the fictional city of Cantaloa and is about an upper-class family and their staff at the beginning of the 20th century. It was first broadcast in Spain on October 4, 2011. In Germany, the television series started on October 8, 2013 on the pay-TV channel Sony Entertainment Television .

The television series received several Spanish television awards, including the Fotogramas de Plata . The film was shot at the Palacio de la Magdalena in Santander , Cantabria . The TV series is often referred to by critics as "Spanish Downton Abbey ".

While the Spanish version has 39 episodes in 3 seasons, the German version is divided into a total of 66 episodes in 3 or 5 seasons.

Plot of the first season

The television series is set in the fictional city of Cantaloa in the luxurious Grand Hotel, the family seat of the Alarcón hotel dynasty, and focuses on the everyday life of the Alarcón family and their employees.

The bold and charming Julio Olmedo infiltrates the Grand Hotel as a waiter in order to solve the mysterious disappearance of his sister Cristina. In his investigation he comes across a plot of intrigues, love affairs and murders.

But he also gets closer to the beautiful Alicia Alarcón, the daughter of the hotel owner Carlos Alarcón, who has already been promised to the hotel magnate Diego Murquía in order to secure the family inheritance. After some time, Alicia learns of Julio's true intentions, but decides to help him, even if it means going against her own family. Alicia's fiancé Diego is suspected of murdering Julio's sister Cristina, with whom he was having an affair.

Cristina had stolen items from the hotel and sold them to get additional money. While doing so, she happened upon a letter with the family secret of the Alarcóns: Andrés, the son of the housekeeper and Julio's best friend and roommate, is the illegitimate first-born son of the late Don Carlos and thus the legal heir of the Grand Hotel. With this letter, Cristina wanted to blackmail the Alarcóns and sought the support of Diego. However, he reveals them to Doña Teresa, who then instructs Diego to deal with the problem.

On the evening of the festival of lights, when the electricity in the hotel is ceremoniously put into operation, Cristina hastily flees the hotel. At the lake, she is caught by Diego, who hits her and falls unconscious into the lake. Diego thinks she is dead and returns to the hotel. Cristina is dragged out of the lake and seriously injured by Pascual, a waiter in the Grand Hotel who is in love with her. Pascual hides the unconscious Cristina for the next month until she regains consciousness. The two decide to take revenge on the Alarcóns and begin to blackmail Diego with the alleged murder of Cristina. He is said to pay 50,000 pesetas or the police learns that he committed the (attempt) murder of Cristina.

The handover is observed by Alicia, who does not recognize the blackmailer. Diego even suspects Alicia to be his blackmailer. The 50,000 pesetas are then found in a suitcase that Diego can finally assign to Pascual, who is now the receptionist at the Grand Hotel. Pascual takes Alicia hostage and threatens her with a letter opener so that she can leave the Grand Hotel undisturbed. He is watched by Julio, who follows the two. He tries to persuade Pascual to give up, whereby he learns that neither Pascual nor Diego are the murderers of Cristina and that Pascual was actually in love with Cristina. Before he can tell more, Pascual is shot by Diego.

Alicia and Julio search Pascual's belongings and find a key. Alicia visits Inspector Ayala to find out that Pascual owned a house in the village that the key fits to. Julio goes into the house but is knocked unconscious. It later turns out that Cristina was hiding in the house, mistaking her brother for an intruder, and therefore knocked him unconscious and fled. Julio is found by Inspector Ayala, who tells him that he knows that Julio is Cristina's brother and that he needs Julio's help with the investigation into the murder of Cristina. The suspicion against Diego is confirmed and he is finally arrested.

Meanwhile, an arrest warrant for Julio arrives at Commissioner Ayala: he is said to have murdered in a robbery. Julio swears it must be a mistake, but from now on he has to hide from Inspector Ayala. Due to Diego's imprisonment, Doña Teresa breaks the engagement between him and Alicia, which Alicia is very happy about. In order to be able to convict Diego for the murder of Cristina, the testimony of Julio is required. He has to choose between his own freedom and testifying against Diego. He decides to testify against Diego, even if that means he will be arrested. On the way to Inspector Ayala, Julio is said to be murdered on Diego's instructions so that he cannot testify. But the hired killer is knocked unconscious by Cristina just in time, whereupon Cristina reveals herself to her brother. Cristina tells Julio the whole story of her thefts, her affair with Diego and the letter, the exact content of which she does not reveal and which she hid in the hotel. She also reveals to Julio that she is still planning to take revenge on the Alarcón family. He therefore has to get the letter back so that they can then escape together.

Julio tells Alicia that Cristina is alive. He tells her about the letter, which he cannot find in the hiding place described by Cristina. Alicia tries to stop Julio from helping Cristina and going away with her. Cristina returns to the hotel to look for the letter herself. She reveals herself to be alive and tries again to blackmail Doña Teresa and Diego. She sets a trap for Doña Teresa and wants to kill her. While Doña Teresa is on her way to the meeting point in the laundry room, there is a power cut. When the lights come on again, a maid finds Cristina dead in the kitchen. She was killed with a mallet. Doña Teresa orders the girl to take Cristina's body to the laundry room and remove the blood from the crime scene so that it looks like an accident. Suspicions against Diego are dropped and he returns to the Grand Hotel and the engagement to Alicia is re-announced. The wedding should take place in a few weeks.

After Cristina's death, Julio wants to leave the hotel and asks Alicia, who is heartbroken after her renewed engagement to Diego, to come with him. Alicia appears at the agreed meeting point. Before the train with both of them leaves, Andrés Julio tells that Inspector Ayala's investigations have shown that Cristina's death was not an accident, but murder. Julio decides not to escape with Alicia and wants to return to the hotel to investigate the murder of his sister. Alicia blames him seriously. She informed Diego about her escape in a letter and now has to go back to the hotel. It turns out that Diego has already read the letter, but he doesn't ask Alicia about it. Meanwhile, the murder investigation of Inspector Ayala suggests Sofía, Alicia's sister, as the murderer. To protect his wife from prison, her husband Alfredo confesses to the murder. Since the murder of Cristina is now resolved, Julio finally wants to flee with Alicia. But she has not forgiven him and marries Diego. Julio leaves the hotel alone. During the preparations for the wedding banquet, Andrés is murdered; it remains to be seen whether he will survive.

Cast and dubbing

The German dubbing is done by the dubbing company Berliner Synchron AG Wenzel Lüdecke in Berlin .

figure Actress Episodes Voice actor
Season episode
Teresa Aldecoa Adriana Ozores 1-3 1-39 Heike Schroetter
Alicia Alarcón Aldecoa Amaia Salamanca 1-3 1-39 Dascha Lehmann
Julio Olmedo Yon González 1-3 1-39 Niclas Lutz
Ángela Salinas Concha Velasco 1-3 1-39 Sonja German
Javier Alarcón Aldecoa Eloy Azorín 1-3 1-39 Nic Romm
Sofía Alarcón Aldecoa Luz Valdenebro 1-3 1-39 Victoria Storm
Adrián Vera Celande / Diego Murquía Pedro Alonso 1-3 1-39 Viktor Neumann
Horacio Ayala Pep Anton Muñoz 1-3 1-39 Bodo Wolf
Andrés Alarcón Salinas Llorenç González 1-3 1-39 Felix Spit
Alfredo Vergara Fele Martínez 1-3 1-39 Rainer Fritzsche
Belén Martín Marta Larralde 1-3 1-39 Mareile Bettina Moeller
Hernando Antonio Reyes 1-3 1-39 Matti Klemm
Sebastian Iván Morales 1-3 1-39 Leonhard Mahlich
Lady Ludivina Asunción Balaguer 1-3 1-38 Hannelore Minkus
Benjamin Nieto Manuel De Blas 1, 3 1-9, 18-25 Eberhard Haar
Cristina Olmedo Paula Prendes 1, 3 1-9, 27 Maria Hönig
Elisa de Vergara Kiti manver 1, 2-3 3, 10-35 Christin Marquitan
Mateo Dión Cordoba 1-3 4-38 Dirk Petrick
Isabel Marián Arahuetes 2-3 10-19
Ernesto Juan Luis Galiardo 2 10-17 Helmut Krauss
Camarero Cristóbal Araqué 2-3 11-31 Sven Fechner
Carlos Alarcón Jordi Bosch 2-3 12-25
Adriana Silvia Marsó 2 13-16
Gonzalo Alarcón Alfonso Bassave 2-3 15-23 Sebastian Christoph Jacob
Fernando Llanes Víctor Clavijo 2-3 17-23 Dennis Schmidt-Foss
Doña Beatrice Cristina Brondo 3 18-27 Annina Braunmiller
Camila Andrea Trepat 3 19-30 Friedel Morgenstern
Violeta Salinas Lydia Bosch 3 23-30 Anna Carlsson
Maite Ribelles Megan Montaner 3 26-39 Bianca Krahl
Laura Montenegro Marta Hazas 3 26-37
Padre gray Roger Coma 3 27-36
Jesús Manzanos Cisneros / Samuel Arriaga Lluís Homar 3 28-39

Charisma

Spain

In Spain the first season ran between October 4th and December 6th 2011. The premiere was seen by 3.72 million Spaniards. This brought the station Antena 3 a market share of 20 percent. The second season premiered on October 3, 2012 and ended on November 21, 2012. The third and last season was broadcast between January 22 and June 25, 2013. The ratings averaged 3.40 million in the first season, the second reached 2.81 million and the last was 2.64 million viewers.

Germany

In Germany, the television series celebrated its premiere on the pay-TV channel Sony Entertainment Television . The station aired the first season between October 8 and November 5, 2013 in double episodes. The first five episodes of the second season were shown immediately after the first. These ran from November 5, 2013 to November 19, 2013. The remaining episodes and the third season have been shown since January 28, 2014.

Disney Channel , which has been broadcasting the series since February 4, 2014, has secured the rights to free TV .

The series was shown for the first time on ARD-ONE in the evening program from 2019.

Season Season start Sony Entertainment Television (Pay TV) Season finale Sony Entertainment Television (Pay TV) Season start Disney Channel (Free TV) Season Finale Disney Channel (Free TV)
1 October 8, 2013 19th November 2013 4th February 2014 May 6, 2014
2 January 28, 2014 April 29, 2014 August 12, 2014 17th February 2015
3 since September 30, 2014 December 9, 2014

DVD release

Spain
  • Season 1 was released on April 18, 2012
  • Season 2 was released on January 2, 2013
  • Season 3 was released on August 28, 2013
Germany
  • Season 1 was released on April 25, 2014
  • Season 2 was released on September 26, 2014
  • Season 3 was released on November 28, 2014
  • Season 4 was released on March 27, 2015
  • Season 5 was released on June 26, 2015

International remakes

  • 2015: Hotel Imperial (Italian version)
  • 2016: El hotel de los secretos (Mexican version)
  • 2016: Secret of the Nile (Egyptian version)
  • 2019: Grand Hotel (US version)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Episode guide at Fernsehserien.de, overview. Retrieved November 26, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Season overview Amazon Video. Retrieved November 26, 2017 .
  3. ^ A b Frederic Servatius: "Spanish" Downton Abbey "": "Grand Hotel" comes to Germany . In : quotemeter.de . July 17, 2013. Retrieved January 26, 2014.
  4. ↑ Grand Hotel: The more spirited Downton Abbey . In: SonyEntertainment.tv . October 22, 2012. Retrieved January 26, 2014.
  5. ↑ Grand Hotel on fernsehserien.de , accessed on February 25, 2016
  6. ↑ a b Grand Hotel. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on January 26, 2014 .
  7. ↑ a b c Jose Álvarez: 'Gran Hotel' se despide con una media superior al 15% en sus 39 capítulos . In: FormulaTV.com . June 26, 2013. Retrieved January 26, 2014.
  8. ↑ Manuel Nunez Sanchez: "Grand Hotel" returns in January . In : quotemeter.de . December 10, 2013. Retrieved January 26, 2014.
  9. ↑ Sidney Schering: Free TV start date for the Disney Channel is . In : quotemeter.de . September 26, 2012. Retrieved January 26, 2014.