Hotel by the Hour

Hotel by the Hour
Directed by	Rolf Olsen
Written by	Rolf Olsen
Produced by	Heinz Willeg
Starring	Curd Jürgens Andrea Rau
Cinematography	Heinz Hölscher
Edited by	Renate Wille
Music by	Erwin Halletz
Production companies	Parnass Film Terra Film
Distributed by	Constantin Film
Release date	9 April 1970
Running time	95 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

Hotel by the Hour (German title: Das Stundenhotel von St. Pauli) is a 1970 West German crime film directed by Rolf Olsen and starring Curd Jürgens, Andrea Rau and Corny Collins. It is set in the red-light district of St. Pauli in Hamburg. A Stundenhotel is a motel where rooms are let by the hour, similar to Japanese love hotels.

The film's sets were designed by the art director Ernst H. Albrecht.

Cast

• Curd Jürgens as Kommissar Canisius
• Andrea Rau as Hannelore Zibulka
• Corny Collins as Nora Benoni
• Rudolf Schündler as Oskar Jennewein
• Michael Maien as Karl Swarowski
• Brigitte Mira as Rose Schuh
• Monika Hielscher as Anna
• Heinrich Gies as Paul Rehschopf
• Robert Wolfgang Schnell as Walter Stooth
• Laurence Bien as Jürgen Möbisch
• Konrad Georg as Police Commissioner Dr. Marschall
• Paul Albert Krumm as Sigi Krulich
• Walter Buschhoff as Lucas Freund
• Gine Magnol as Inge Bauer
• Marlies Petersen as Erna Machunze
• Friedrich Siemers as Herbert Dreegen
• Ilse Peternell as Beate Dreegen
• Thomas Fischer as K. H. Killian
• Angelica Ott as Marion
• Gerd Frickhöffer as Adolf von Batelnigg
• Yvonne Ten Hoff as Heidi Strauss
• Klaus Hagen Latwesen as Rolf Hogerth
• Manfred Tümmler as Peter Canisius
• Manfred Spies as Kretschmann
• Dieter Wagner as Egon Gold
• Käte Jaenicke
• Ulli Kinalzik as Franz
• Gustl Meyer-Fuerst as Bill

Bibliography

• Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

• Das Stundenhotel von St. Pauli at IMDb