Savoy Hotel 217

Savoy Hotel 217
Savoy Hotel 217
Directed by	Gustav Ucicky
Written by	Gerhard Menzel
Produced by
Starring	Hans Albers; Brigitte Horney; Alexander Engel;
Cinematography	Fritz Arno Wagner
Edited by	Eduard von Borsody
Music by	Walter Gronostay
Production; company	UFA
Distributed by	UFA
Release date	7 April 1936
Running time	92 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

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]

The film's sets were designed by the art directors Robert Herlth and Walter Röhrig. The costumes were by Herbert Ploberger.

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
as Aribor
as Wachmann
Paul Bildt as Bettler
Horst Birr as Wanja - Hotelangestellter
as Page
as Zuschauer im Varieté
as Junger Uniformierter
as Zuschauer im Varieté
as Russe
Erich Dunskus as Aufseher
as Hotelangestellter
Karl Etlinger as Igor Andrej - Tubaspieler
Erich Fiedler as Etagenkellner
as Untersuchungsrichter
as Zuschauer im Varieté
as Hotelangestellter
as Insasse im Nachtasyl
as Tänzerin
Herbert Hübner as Julio Simkowitsch - Personalchef
as Insasse im Nachtasyl
as Zimmermädchen
as Insasse im Nachtasyl
as Tänzer
as Insasse im Nachtasyl
Werner Pledath as Michael Trofinawitsch - Etagenkellner
as Zuschauerin im Varieté
as Russischer Budenbesitzer
Rudolf Schündler as Geschäftsführer des 'Savoy'
as Drehorgelspieler
as Hotelpage
as Schreiber des Untersuchungsrichters
as Russin bei Osterfeierlichkeit
as Hotelangestellter
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".^[2]

References[]

^ Bock & Bergfelder p.217
^ 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.

External links[]

Savoy Hotel 217 at IMDb

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[1] Bock & Bergfelder p.217

[2] 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.)

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