Hotel Berlin
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| Hotel Berlin | |
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 Poster from Hotel Berlin |
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| Directed by | Peter Godfrey |
| Produced by | Louis F. Edelman |
| Written by | Alvah Bessie Jo Pagano Vicki Baum (novel) |
| Starring | Helmut Dantine Andrea King Raymond Massey Faye Emerson Peter Lorre |
| Music by | Franz Waxman |
| Cinematography | Carl E. Guthrie |
| Editing by | Frederick Richards |
| Distributed by | Warner Brothers |
| Release date(s) | March 2, 1945 |
| Running time | 98 min. |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
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Hotel Berlin is a film set in Berlin near the close of the Second World War, made by Warner Brothers in late 1945.
Near the end of World War Two, a member of the German underground, Martin Richter, escapes from the Dachau concentration camp and takes shelter at Hotel Berlin, where he meets Lisa Dorn, a sleek actress involved with General von Dahnwitz, who is also trying to leave Germany. The hotel is a hotbed of Nazis, refugees, spies and ordinary Germans trying to survive inevitable defeat without getting too involved.
It has aspects of Allied post-war propaganda, in that Allied leaders are praised at the conclusion and one of the more memorable lines is "A Nazi never changes." At the conclusion of the film, several Nazis are planning escape to South America. This plot device has parallels in contemporary history, due to the extreme fear pervading post war society that the Nazis will return.
[edit] Cast
- Faye Emerson --- Tillie Weiler
- Helmut Dantine --- Martin Richter
- Raymond Massey --- Arnim von Dahnwitz
- Andrea King --- Lisa Dorn
- Peter Lorre --- Johannes Koenig
- Alan Hale --- Herman Plottke
- George Coulouris --- Joachim Helm
- Henry Daniell --- Von Stetten
- Peter Whitney --- Heinrichs
- Helen Thimig --- Sarah Baruch (as Helene Thimig)
- Steven Geray --- Kleibert
- Kurt Kreuger --- Major Kauders
- Erwin Kalser --- Dr. Dorf
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