Savoy Hotel 217
Directed byGustav Ucicky
Written byGerhard Menzel
Produced byFritz Podehl
Starring
CinematographyFritz Arno Wagner
Edited byEduard von Borsody
Music byWalter Gronostay
Production
company
Distributed byUFA
Release date
7 April 1936
Running time
92 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

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] It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Potsdam.[2] The film's sets were designed by the art directors Robert Herlth and Walter Röhrig. The costumes were by Herbert Ploberger. It premiered at Berlin's UFA-Palast am Zoo.

Cast

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".[3]

References

  1. ^ Bock & Bergfelder p.217
  2. ^ Klaus p.176
  3. ^ 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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Films directed by Gustav Ucicky
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