Warners B roster of character actors including Raymond Massey, Peter Lorre, Andrea King, Alan Hale, Philip Dorn, Faye Emerson (who steals the movie as the hotel prostitute)and all the rest are very good. I expected a schematic diagram of German stereotypes and their evolution in this war-time film about the good folks in a classy Berlin hotel towards the end of the war. Was this review helpful?

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This point in time is toward the end of the war, when Germany was obviously losing. Three strangers, each with a serious problem in their lives, share a sweepstakes ticket which they wished upon together before a Chinese idol.

3 out of 3 found this helpful. 5 out of 24 found this helpful. A worthwhile way to spend an hour and a bit. "Hotel Berlin" was director Peter Godfrey's seventh film. You cannot take this film too serious, however, it did tell us about a horrible war and and Devil called Hitler. After the story with Sven, her second cousin, was over, she got together with her best friend Hart and the two are about to get married.

Other Nazis are planning to escape to America. That is, if Sven doesn't ruin things. Specifically the search for a member of the German underground who has escaped from a concentration camp.

Fearing World War II would end before he could release "Hotel Berlin,"Jack Warner wanted this melodramatic opus completed as quickly as possible. Directed by Franziska Meyer Price. Was this review helpful?

As the war against Nazi Germany is coming to a climax, this 1945 film revolves around several characters at a hotel in Berlin. 0 out of 8 found this helpful. All your favorite character actors are here - nice to see them in such an intriguing ensemble piece. 19 out of 19 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Peter Lorre has a brief role but why he was released from prison and other transformations must have been left on the cutting room floor.

After the success of the MGM movie "Grand Hotel," Vicki Baum sought to capture the public's interest with another bestseller Hotel Berlin '43, which was a similar tale about life in a hotel. Interesting movie about the goings-on of various characters at the Hotel Berlin near the end of WWII. 7 out of 15 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Was this review helpful? Interesting movie about the goings-on of various characters at the Hotel Berlin near the end of WWII. Henry Daniell as a keen Gestapo officer also does not over-play, and the restraint he shows is admirable, as Gestapo officers are such obvious targets for over-acting.

He shot it between November 15, 1944, and January 15, 1945. Also, if you ever wanted to see Alan Hale as a Nazi, here's your chance. The cast performs well but with the source material being from the author of Grand Hotel and a decent script it's a surprise that the players are more or less B level performers. Unusual because this film presents some Germans as good and tries to separate the Nazi regime from the ordinary population who just tried to survive the madness.

Australian release: 28 June 1945. Was this review helpful? You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin.

Not Without some Interest, this Ultimately Unsatisfying bit of Studio Filmmaking Echoes WWII Propaganda.

You know, lots of heel-clicking and "Heil Hilers" and Nazi officers shooting each other to save their own skin, and not to forget the Gestapo and the burning bamboo splinters under the fingernails. Never released on VHS or DVD.

11 out of 11 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? U.S. release: 17 March 1945. Initially, Germany might seem the last place for a story about the Nazi resistance, but that was the setting for "Hotel Berlin."

Hotel Indigo Berlin - East Side Gallery, Hotel Adlon Kempinski Berlin oraz Mercure Berlin Wittenbergplatz są popularne w Berlinie. Was this review helpful? Hollywood was probably just as good and sick of making this sort of anti-Nazi propaganda picture as audiences were good and sick of seeing them. It's a pretty good though not great WWII movie with a unique setting and some frank (for the time) talk about concentration camps and the Holocaust.

But the story is so sloppily put together, with so many gaffs, so much broken continuity, and scenes that lead to nowhere, that I wonder wonder what so many reviewers giving good scores are smoking. Was this review helpful? Peter Lorre,(Johannes Koenig),"The Beast With Five Fingers",'46, played an entirely different role as a Professor, who seemed to drink most of the time, but did hate the Nazi's and their cause and managed to do his best making false ID papers and passports. He shot it between November 15, 1944, and January 15, 1945. Was this review helpful? Was this review helpful to you? Was this review helpful?

14 out of 18 found this helpful. With Faye Emerson, Helmut Dantine, Raymond Massey, Andrea King. A jealous, manipulative stepmother confined to a wheelchair interferes with her stepchildren's romances so that they will not get married and leave home. Entertaining melodrama that revolves around an upscale hotel as the Nazi regime is tumbling down and the rats are deserting the sinking ship. 10 out of 10 found this helpful.