#HotelBerlin

Poster art for 1945 film Hotel Berlin. Copy reads “The Brutal Excesses of the Nazis Under Fire!”

This evening I am watching #HotelBerlin by
Peter Godfrey on TCM. @tcmtv.bsky.social

“In 1945, a strange mix of Germans, military personnel and civilians, pro-Nazi and anti-Nazi, celebrities and escaped prisoners, converges at a lavish hotel in heavily-bombed Berlin.”
#nfotd

Always fun to see Steven Geray pop up. No matter what part he's playing, I can't help but hearing him say "Peasant!" at the end of every sentence.

#TCMParty #TCM #HotelBerlin

They’ve since cleaned it up a bit. #HotelBerlin #TCMParty

Here’s a WW2-era thriller with a peculiar problem, says CineSavant’s #GlennErickson: how to dramatize a situation in the enemy’s capital. Warner Brothers kept having to alter the 1945 film #HotelBerlin to fit fast-changing world events while filming: