Savoy Hotel 217
Directed byGustav Ucicky
Written byGerhard Menzel
Produced byFritz Podehl
Starring
CinematographyFritz Arno Wagner
Edited byEduard von Borsody
Music byWalter Gronostay
Production
company
Distributed byUFA
Release date
7 April 1936
Running time
92 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

Savoy Hotel 217 (German: Savoy-Hotel 217) is a 1936 German drama film directed by Gustav Ucicky and starring Hans Albers, Brigitte Horney and Alexander Engel.[1] It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Potsdam.[2] The film's sets were designed by the art directors Robert Herlth and Walter Röhrig. The costumes were by Herbert Ploberger. It premiered at Berlin's UFA-Palast am Zoo.

Cast

  • Hans Albers as Andrei Antonovitch Wolodkin
  • Brigitte Horney as Nastasja Andrejevna Daschenko
  • Alexander Engel as Fedor Fedorovich Daschenko
  • René Deltgen as Sergei Gavrilovitch Schuvalov
  • Gusti Huber as Darja Sergejewna Plagina
  • Käthe Dorsch as Anna Fedorovna Orlowa
  • Jakob Tiedtke as Leonid Alexandrovitch Schapkin
  • Aribert Wäscher as Pavel Pavlovitch
  • Hans Leibelt as Untersuchungsrichter
  • Paul Westermeier as Schlittenkutscher
  • Carl Auen as Kriminalbeamter
  • Fritz Berghof as Aribor
  • Hellmuth Bergmann as Wachmann
  • Paul Bildt as Bettler
  • Horst Birr as Wanja - Hotelangestellter
  • Günther Brackmann as Page
  • Walter Brückner as Zuschauer im Varieté
  • Viktor Carter as Junger Uniformierter
  • Jac Diehl as Zuschauer im Varieté
  • Michael Distler as Russe
  • Erich Dunskus as Aufseher
  • Max Harry Ernst as Hotelangestellter
  • Karl Etlinger as Igor Andrej - Tubaspieler
  • Erich Fiedler as Etagenkellner
  • Paul Ludwig Frey as Untersuchungsrichter
  • Lothar Glathe as Zuschauer im Varieté
  • Ralph-Willy Grunert as Hotelangestellter
  • Albert Hugelmann as Insasse im Nachtasyl
  • Margot Höpfner as Tänzerin
  • Herbert Hübner as Julio Simkowitsch - Personalchef
  • Carl Iban as Insasse im Nachtasyl
  • Babette Jenssen as Zimmermädchen
  • Josef Karma as Insasse im Nachtasyl
  • Jens Keith as Tänzer
  • Harald Maresch
  • Hans Meyer-Hanno as Insasse im Nachtasyl
  • Werner Pledath as Michael Trofinawitsch - Etagenkellner
  • Tine Schneider as Zuschauerin im Varieté
  • S.O. Schoening as Russischer Budenbesitzer
  • Rudolf Schündler as Geschäftsführer des 'Savoy'
  • Friedrich Teitge as Drehorgelspieler
  • Tommy Thomas as Hotelpage
  • Walter von Allwoerden as Schreiber des Untersuchungsrichters
  • Else Ward as Russin bei Osterfeierlichkeit
  • Raimund Warta as Hotelangestellter
  • Eduard Wenck as Iwan Iwanowitsch - Hotelportier
  • Ewald Wenck as Schlittenkutscher

Reception

Writing for The Spectator in 1936, Graham Greene gave the film a positive review, characterizing it as an "agreeably [...] slow, good-humoured murder-story". Praising Engel's acting as particularly vivid, Greene summarized the film, claiming: "melodramatic passions are given a pleasantly realistic setting by a very competent director and a first-class cameraman".[3]

References

  1. ↑ Bock & Bergfelder p.217
  2. ↑ Klaus p.176
  3. ↑ Greene, Graham (9 October 1036). "The Texas Rangers/Savoy Hotel 217/The King Steps Out". The Spectator. (reprinted in: Taylor, John Russell, ed. (1980). The Pleasure Dome. pp. 107-108. ISBN 0192812866.)

Bibliography

  • Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
  • Klaus, Ulrich J. Deutsche Tonfilme: Jahrgang 1936. Klaus-Archiv, 1988.
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