Hotel Sacher (film)

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Hotel Sacher
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Directed by Erich Engel
Written by
Produced by Walter Tjaden
Starring
Cinematography
Edited by René Métain
Music by Willy Schmidt-Gentner
Production
company
UFA
Distributed byUFA
Release date
  • 15 March 1939 (1939-03-15)
Running time
88 minutes
CountryGermany
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]

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The film's sets were designed by the art director Hans Ledersteger and Hans Richter. It was partly shot 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 his ex-lover, a female Russian spy.

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References

  1. Bock & Bergfelder p. 43

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