Hotel Sacher (film)

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Hotel Sacher
Directed byErich Engel
Written byE.G. Seeliger
Marieluise Füringk
Stefan von Kamare
Friedrich Forster-Burggraf
Produced byWalter Tjaden
StarringSybille Schmitz
Willy Birgel
Wolf Albach-Retty
CinematographyWerner Bohne
Kurt Schulz
Edited byRené Métain
Music byWilly Schmidt-Gentner
Production
company
Distributed byUFA
Release date
15 March 1939
Running time
88 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

Hotel Sacher is a 1939 German drama film directed by Erich Engel and starring Sybille Schmitz, Willy Birgel and Wolf Albach-Retty.[1]

The film's sets were designed by the art director Hans Ledersteger and Hans Richter. It was partly short on location in Vienna, which had recently been taken over by Nazi Germany. Interior scenes were shot at the Rosenhügel Studios.

Synopsis

Shortly before the First World War at the Hotel Sacher in Vienna, a disgraced Austrian civil servant meets a female Russian spy.

Cast

References

  1. ^ Bock & Bergfelder p.43

Bibliography

  • Bock, Hans-Michael and Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
  • Kreimeier, Klaus. The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918-1945. University of California Press, 1999.

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