Film

Small Hotel

1939 · 1h 25m · Drama

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.

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

Gino Viotti

Olinto Cristina

Hermann Daniell

Augusto Di Giovanni

Fellner

Enzo Gainotti

Kalnadek

• Piero BalleriniDirector · Story · Screenplay
• Ugo LombardiDirector of Photography
• Pietro BenedettiEditor

Release date

January 10, 1939

Status

Released

Original language

Italian

Runtime

1h 25m

Genres

Drama