Hotel Sacher (film)

Hotel Sacher
Directed by	Erich Engel
Written by	E.G. Seeliger Marieluise Füringk Stefan von Kamare Friedrich Forster
Produced by	Walter Tjaden
Starring	Sybille Schmitz Willy Birgel Wolf Albach-Retty
Cinematography	Werner Bohne Kurt Schulz
Edited by	René Métain
Music by	Willy Schmidt-Gentner
Production company	UFA
Distributed by	UFA
Release date	15 March 1939 (1939-03-15)
Running time	88 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

Hotel Sacher is a 1939 German drama film directed by Erich Engel and starring Sybille Schmitz, Willy Birgel, and Wolf Albach-Retty.^[1]

The film's sets were designed by the art director Hans Ledersteger and Hans Richter. It was partly shot on location in Vienna, which had recently been taken over by Nazi Germany. Interior scenes were shot at the Rosenhügel Studios.

Shortly before the First World War at the Hotel Sacher in Vienna, a disgraced Austrian civil servant meets his ex-lover, a female Russian spy.

• Titanic (A similar nazi propaganda film from 1943, also starring Sybille Schmitz as a Russian socialite)

• Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.
• Kreimeier, Klaus (1999). The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918–1945. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-22069-0.

• Hotel Sacher at IMDb

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