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Grand Hotel is a Allemand film of genre Drama directed by Gottfried Reinhardt with O.W. Fischer
Grand Hotel (1959)
Menschen im Hotel
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Add to a movie listMenschen im Hotel (French: Grand Hotel) is a 1959 German and French black-and-white drama film directed by Gottfried Reinhardt, and produced by Artur Brauner. It starred O.W. Fischer, Michèle Morgan, Heinz Rühmann and Gert Fröbe. The screenplay was written by Ladislas Fodor and Hans Jacoby, based on the 1929 novel by Vicki Baum. The film is a remake of the 1932 classic Grand Hotel.
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The film shows two days and nights in a Berlin luxury hotel and tells the story of how the paths of various quite different characters cross. It begins with an attempted suicide by the famous dancer Grusinskaja. She is rescued by an impoverished noble, Baron von Gaigern, and falls in love with him. Von Gaigern, who makes a living as a hotel thief, learns about the corrupt dealings by businessman Preysing. He attempts to blackmail Preysing, with tragic results.Actors
O.W. Fischer
(Eric Gaigern)
Michèle Morgan
(Grusinskaïa)
Heinz Rühmann
(Carl Kringelein)
Gert Fröbe
(Preysing)
Sonja Ziemann
(Françoise Flamme)
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