Hotel Sacher (1939)

Movie
Original title	Hotel Sacher
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1939
length	88 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Erich Engel
script	Friedrich Forster Burgrave , Stefan Kamare
production	Mondial (for UFA )
music	Willy Schmidt-Gentner
camera	Kurt Schulz , Werner Bohne
cut	René Métain
occupation
Sybille Schmitz : Nadja Woroneff Willy Birgel : Stefan Schefczuk Wolf Albach-Retty : Lieutenant Herrngruber Elfie Mayerhofer : Siddy Erlauer Hedwig Bleibtreu : Anna Sacher Herbert Huebner : Colonel Barnoff Leo Peukert : Count Kusmin Carl Günther : Head of Section Erlauer Walter Szurovy : Mr. Stoppeling Elfriede Datzig : Mrs. Stoppeling Rosa Albach-Retty : Aunt Regine Karl Stepanek : Waiter Franz Alfred Neugebauer : Ministerialrat Rieder Oskar Werner : Lift boy

Hotel Sacher is a German feature film by Erich Engel from 1939. The interior shots were shot in the Rosenhügel film studios .

content

The film takes place on New Year's Eve 1913/14 in the Hotel Sacher in Vienna. At that time this is the meeting point of the “big world” and also of the demi-world . Imperial and Royal Highnesses, diplomats , high officials and officers swarm around the ladies of society and the girls of the opera ballet. The hotel manager, Ms. Sacher, and her head waiter also check and monitor some of the dining rooms and the private rooms , where other “things” happen alongside politics . The New Year, in which the First World War will break out, is cheered and celebrated everywhere. But a shot is fired in the spy Nadja's room. She is arrested in front of the Russian embassy . The Austrian civil servant Stefan loves her, but is himself suspected of being an agent . When Nadja is accused, he shoots himself.

criticism

"Despite its melodramatic love story, the routinely staged and played spy film can make clear a little of the political atmosphere in Austria before the outbreak of World War I, which was charged with hatred, intolerance and mistrust."

- Lexicon of International Films

See also

• List of German feature films premiered in the German Reich during the Nazi era

Web links

• Hotel Sacher in theInternet Movie Database(English)
• Hotel Sacher at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hotel Sacher in the Lexicon of International Films