Small Hotel (1939)
Piccolo hotel
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.
- Date of release
- 1939-01-10
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 25m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Piero Ballerini
Casting
- 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
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