Hotel Meina
2007 · Movie · 115 min. · Italy
How will the Germans react to the armistice of the 8th of September 1943, due to which Italy betrays them and sides with the allied forces? This is the distressing questions that a group of 16 Italian - Greek Jews evacuated at The Meina Hotel ask themselves. Hotel Meina, named after the town of Meina at Lake Maggiore, run by the Benars, a family of Turkish Jews. The grown-ups' questions are toned down by the light-heartiness of the two youngsters, Noa and Julien who are in love and full of hope in their future. The uncertainty is broken by the arrival of an SS detachment conducted by Krassler. The sixteen Jews are kept in isolation in the hotel and the never ending wait begins full of uncertainties, despair, fear and hope. Noa and Julien's love is countered by the attraction that pushes the enigmatic Krassler, uncontrollable in his Nazi faith, towards Cora, a fascinating German who is passing through...
Direction Carlo Lizzani
Cast Ivana Lotito · Ralph Palka · Benjamin Sadler · Adriano Wajskol · Majlinda Agaj · Eugenio Allegri · Marta Bifano · Veronica Bruni · Ursula Buschhorn · Butz Ulrich Buse · Silvia Cohen · Diana Collepiccolo · Simone Colombari · Federico Costantini · Elia Donghi · Fiamma Ferzetti · Marco Fubini · Fabio Ghidoni · Ernesto Mahieux · Fabio Marchese · Francesco Meoni · Gordana Miletic · Marco Morellini · Ferdinando Murolo · Danilo Nigrelli · Federico Pacifici · Gilda Postiglione Turco · Lavinia Pozzi · Andrea Redavid · Almerica Schiavo · Nuccio Siano · Maurizio Tabani · Thierry Toscan
Soundtrack Luis Bacalov
Screenplay Pasquale Squitieri · Dino Gentili · Filippo Gentili · Carlo Lizzani · Marco Nozza
Cinematography Claudio Sabatini
Original title Hotel Meina
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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