A sanitarium burns down and chaos checks into a hotel. What could go wrong? EVERYTHING.
Absurd mistakes arise when the passengers of a burnt down sanitarium are quartered at a hotel. -Humble-tumultuous comedy with situation joke and proven comedians.
Acting
Hans Moser's perpetual exasperation is an art form.
Production
Pre-Anschluss Vienna captured in amber—bittersweet now.
Director
E.W. Emo
Paul Hörbiger
Peter Burgstaller, Oberkellner
Trude Marlen
Eva Hügler - Inhaberin Hotel 'Kronprinz'
Hans Moser
Wandl - Hausknecht 'Hotel Kronprinz'
Heinz Salfner
Mr. Vanderbilt
Max Gülstorff
Julius Hügler sen. - Präsident Hügler AG.
Hans Richter
Manz, Liftboy 'Hotel Kronprinz'
Karl Ludwig Schreiber
Fred Bruckmann (as K.L. Schreiber)
Paul Henckels
Professor Marius - Besitzer Sanatorium 'Seelenruhe'
Josef Reithofer
Egon Brosig
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
E.W. Emo fled Austria in 1938; this film now reads as elegy for a culture about to be destroyed. The hotel setting—a microcosm of fragile social order.
Paul Hörbiger later became famous as the concierge in 'The Third Man'—same profession, infinitely more sinister.
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