Hotel Sacher (film)

Hotel Sacher
Directed by Erich Engel
Produced by Walter Tjaden
Written by E.G. Seeliger
Marieluise Füringk
Stefan von Kamare
Friedrich Forster-Burggraf
Starring Sybille Schmitz
Willy Birgel
Wolf Albach-Retty
Music by Willy Schmidt-Gentner
Cinematography Werner Bohne
Kurt Schulz
Edited by René Métain
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

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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