Hotel Berlin

Infobox Film
name = Hotel Berlin


image_size = 200px
caption = Poster from "Hotel Berlin"
director = Peter Godfrey
producer = Louis F. Edelman
writer = Alvah Bessie
Jo Pagano
Vicki Baum (novel)
narrator =
starring = Helmut Dantine
Andrea King
Raymond Massey
Faye Emerson
Peter Lorre
music = Franz Waxman
cinematography = Carl E. Guthrie
editing = Frederick Richards
distributor = Warner Brothers
released = March 2 1945
runtime = 98 min.
country = USA
language = English
budget =
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amg_id = 1:95682
imdb_id = 0037791

Hotel Berlin is a film set in Berlin near the close of the Second World War, made by Warner Brothers in late 1944 - early 1945. The film was released in March, 1945.

Near the end of World War Two, a member of the German underground, Martin Richter, escapes from the Dachau concentration camp and takes shelter at Hotel Berlin, where he meets Lisa Dorn, a sleek actress involved with General von Dahnwitz, who is also trying to leave Germany. The hotel is a hotbed of Nazis, refugees, spies and ordinary Germans trying to survive inevitable defeat without getting too involved.

It has aspects of Allied post-war propaganda, in that Allied leaders are praised at the conclusion and one of the more memorable lines is "A Nazi never changes." At the conclusion of the film, several Nazis are planning escape to South America. This plot device has parallels in contemporary history, due to the extreme fear pervading post war society that the Nazis will return.

Cast

*Faye Emerson as Tillie Weiler
*Helmut Dantine as Martin Richter
*Raymond Massey as Arnim von Dahnwitz
*Andrea King as Lisa Dorn
*Peter Lorre as Johannes Koenig
*Alan Hale as Herman Plottke
*George Coulouris as Joachim Helm
*Henry Daniell as Von Stetten
*Peter Whitney as Heinrichs
*Helen Thimig as Sarah Baruch (as Helene Thimig)
*Steven Geray as Kleibert
*Kurt Kreuger as Major Kauders
*Erwin Kalser as Dr. Dorf