A hotel you never knew existed, a town that won't let you leave, and zero clue what you're doing.
It seems as if Lena is a Sunday child: successful in her job and heiress to a hotel. What is strange, however, is that she doesn't know the man who left her a legacy in his will. She travels to the Thuringian town of Saalfeld to take a look at her inheritance and initially decides to sell the hotel. However, when the situation in the company changes for her, she changes her mind and accepts her inheritance in full. But running a hotel requires more than self-confidence and cleverness, as she soon realizes.
Acting
Chiara Schoras carries every 'I have no idea what I'm doing' moment perfectly.
Production
Saalfeld location shooting feels authentically sleepy and vaguely judgmental.
Director
Bettina Woernle
Chiara Schoras
Lena Resky
Clelia Sarto
Franziska 'Fanny' Petermann
Peter Davor
Benjamin 'Ben' Rieke
Anna Brüggemann
Doreen Seger
Andreas Schmidt-Schaller
Paul Thorwald
Brigitte Böttrich
Anna Michelski
Günter Grabbert
Friedrich 'Fred' Schöffel
Fred Delmare
Mann von der Gewerbeaufsicht
Olaf Müller
Notar Becker
Lutz Teschner
Herr König
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was a pilot for the long-running daily soap 'Sturm der Liebe' — yes, really. The hotel 'Fürstenhof' became TV's most dramatic place in Bavaria for two decades.
Post-reunification Germany loved 'Erbenkomödien' — inheritance comedies where West Germans discover the East. This one is unusually gentle about it.
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