Grand Hotel
1932 · Movie · 115 min. · United States
Berlin's plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words of Dr. Otternschlag "People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.". The doctor is usually drunk so he missed the fact that Baron von Geigern is broke and trying to steal eccentric dancer Grusinskaya's pearls. He ends up stealing her heart instead. Powerful German businessman Preysing brow beats Kringelein, one of his company's lowly bookkeepers but it is the terminally ill Kringelein who holds all the cards in the end. Meanwhile, the Baron also steals the heart of Preysing's mistress, Flaemmchen, but she doesn't end up with either one of them in the end...
Direction Edmund Goulding
Cast Greta Garbo · John Barrymore · Joan Crawford · Wallace Beery · Lionel Barrymore · Jean Hersholt · Robert McWade · Tully Marshall · Purnell Pratt
Soundtrack William Axt · Charles Maxwell
Screenplay William A. Drake · Vicki Baum
Cinematography William H. Daniels
Original title Grand Hotel
7.1
3K votes (FilmAffinity)
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