Hotel Sacher (film)
Hotel Sacher | |
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Directed by | Erich Engel |
Written by | E.G. Seeliger Marieluise Füringk Stefan von Kamare Friedrich Forster-Burggraf |
Produced by | Walter Tjaden |
Starring | Sybille Schmitz Willy Birgel Wolf Albach-Retty |
Cinematography | Werner Bohne Kurt Schulz |
Edited by | René Métain |
Music by | Willy Schmidt-Gentner |
Production company | |
Distributed by | UFA |
Release date | 15 March 1939 |
Running time | 88 minutes |
Country | Germany |
Language | German |
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
- Sybille Schmitz as Nadja Woroneff
- Willy Birgel as Stefan Schefczuk
- Wolf Albach-Retty as Lt. Herrngruber
- Elfriede Datzig as Frau Stoppeling
- Hedwig Bleibtreu as Frau Anna Sacher
- Herbert Hübner as Barnoff
- Leo Peukert as Graf Kusmin
- Karl Günther as Sektionschef Erlauer
- Elfie Mayerhofer as Siddy Erlauer - singer
- Rosa Albach-Retty as Tante Regine im Separee mit den Erlauer Gästen
- Olly Holzmann as Franzi
- Walter Szurovy as Herr Stoppling
- Fritz Imhoff as Portier Seidl
- Karel Stepanek as Franz
- Alfred Neugebauer as Ministerialrat
- Hans Unterkircher as Graf Lagarde
- Otto Glaser
- Herta Mayen as Dancer
- Elisabeth Pünkösdy
- Tibor Halmay
- Richard Waldemar as Waiter Wagner
- Mihail Xantho as Dufour
- Ernst Pröckl as Regierungsrat Weghuber
- Fritz Puchstein
- Ernst Nadherny
- Helene Lauterböck
- Viktor Braun
- Robert Valberg
- Oskar Werner as Liftboy
References
- ^ 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.
External links
- Hotel Sacher at IMDb
Categories:
- 1939 films
- 1930s drama films
- 1930s historical films
- German historical films
- German drama films
- German films
- Films of Nazi Germany
- German-language films
- Films directed by Erich Engel
- UFA films
- Films shot in Vienna
- Films set in Vienna
- Films set in the 1910s
- Films set in hotels
- Films shot at Rosenhügel Studios
- 1930s German film stubs