Small Hotel (1939)
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.
- Released
- 1939-01-10
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 85 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Piero Ballerini, Piero Ballerini
- TMDB rating
- 7.0/10 from 1 votes
Cast
- Andrea Checchi as Andrea Toth
- Emma Gramatica as Martha Toth
- Laura Nucci as Aurora Borg
- Mino Doro as Gregory Bauer
- Bianca Doria as Anna Fargas
- Lola Braccini as Rosa Fargas
- Giovanni Grasso as dottor Kralik
- Luisella Beghi as Maria Kallmann
- Silvio Bagolini as Stefan Bartha
- Velia Cruicchi Galvani as Yvonne Guilbert
- Guido Notari as Paolo Holber
- Corrado De Cenzo as Vladimiro Skenak