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.
It was shot at the Spandau Studios with film's sets designed by the art director Rolf Zehetbauer.
Portrayal
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.
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. A three-part drama mini-series set at the hotel entitled 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.
Cast
Sebastian Fischer as Paul Rippert
Nelly Borgeaud as Ninette
René Deltgen as Gravic
Werner Hinz as Lorenz Adlon
Nadja Tiller as Mabel
Erich Schellow as Louis Adlon
Karl John as Herr von Malbrand
Peter Mosbacher as Herr Andrewski
Lola Müthel as Nina
Hans Caninenberg as Direktor Jansen
Walter Bluhm as Solicitor
Arno Paulsen as Doorman
Kurt Buecheler
Stanislav Ledinek
Helmuth Lohner
Ralph Lothar
Werner Peters
Ewald Wenck
Claude Farell
Lori Leux
Harry Giese
See also
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
Bibliography
Frodon, Jean-Michel. Cinema and the Shoah. SUNY Press, 2010.