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]

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-Filmverleih
Release date
  • 1 September 1955 (1955-09-01)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryWest Germany
LanguageGerman

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

Portrayal

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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

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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, Hedwig Leythen

Cast

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See also

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  • Lorenz Adlon (1849–1921), German hotelier
  • Hotel Adlon, Berlin, Germany – built by Lorenz Adlon
  • Louis Adlon (1908–1947), German-American film actor in Hollywood, grandson of Lorenz
  • Percy Adlon (born 1935, Munich), German film producer, cousin of Louis
  • Pamela Adlon (born 1966), American actress, daughter-in-law of Percy

References

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  1. ^ a b Adlon, Hedda (30 December 1994). Hotel Adlon. Heyne. ISBN 9783453009264 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ Frodon p. 167
  3. ^ a b "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.

Bibliography

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