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Small Hotel (1939)

Name: Small Hotel
Director: Piero Ballerini
Genre: Drama
Released: 1939-01-10
Duration: 85 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Andrea Checchi, Emma Gramatica, Laura Nucci, Mino Doro, Bianca Doria

85 min · Italy · Dir. Piero Ballerini

Drama 1939 movies

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.