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Status
Released
Release
1939
Runtime
1h 25m
Piccolo Hotel (aka Small Hotel) uses the titular establishment to weave together a vast tapestry of subplots, a la Grand Hotel. The guests include a domineering mother (Lola Braccini), her petulant daughter (Bianca Doria) and the daughter's gigolo boyfriend (Guido Notari). Also on hand is a worldly vamp (Laura Nucci) who also falls for the boyfriend, and the chronic-gambler son (Andrea Checchi) of the hotel's self-sacrificing landlady (Emma Grammatica). Though the film is set in Budapest, the characters are more Mediterranean than mittel-European. Piccolo Hotel was one of the entries in the Vienna Biennial Film Festival.
20 Cast Members
Andrea Checchi
Andrea Toth
Emma Gramatica
Martha Toth
Laura Nucci
Aurora Borg
Mino Doro
Gregory Bauer
Bianca Doria
Anna Fargas
Lola Braccini
Rosa Fargas
Giovanni Grasso
dottor Kralik
Luisella Beghi
Maria Kallmann
Silvio Bagolini
Stefan Bartha
Velia Cruicchi Galvani
Yvonne Guilbert
Guido Notari
Paolo Holber
Corrado De Cenzo
Vladimiro Skenak
Gino Viotti
Olinto Cristina
Hermann Daniell
Augusto Di Giovanni
Fellner
Enzo Gainotti
Kalnadek
Wanda Capodaglio
signora Hammer
Maria Dominiani
cameriera dell'hotel
Emilio Petacci
usciere dell'hotel
Rossano Brazzi