Status
Released
Release
1997
Runtime
1h 15m
The documentary tells the story of the Berlin luxury hotel, which was built by the director's great-grandfather and fell victim to a fire shortly after the end of the Second World War.
5 Cast Members
Eva Mattes
Pola Negri
Felix O. Adlon
Louis Adlon
Erwin Wendt
Lorenz Adlon
Percy Adlon
Louis Adlon sen.
Susanne Adlon-Meyerhöfer
Herself
A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions at that time. Germany had just recovered a little from the worst consequences of the First World War, the great economic crisis was still a few years away and Hitler was not yet an issue at the time.
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