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Grand Hotel (1932)

Drama | 112 minutes
3,40 135 votes

Genre: Drama / Romance

Duration: 112 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Edmund Goulding

Stars: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore and Joan Crawford

IMDb score: 7,3 (21.576)

Releasedate: 25 May 1932

Grand Hotel plot

"Thank the stars for a great entertainment!"

The story is about a plush hotel in Berlin 'where nothing ever happens'. Grusinskaya (Garbo) is a lonely Russian ballerina with suicidal tendencies, Felix von Geigern (Barrymore) is her lover who is actually a jewel thief. Flaemmchen (Crawford) is a shorthand typist who deliberately uses her sex appeal to obtain a minimum of economic security in a man's world. Otto (Barrymore) is a sickly bookkeeper who has embezzled some money for one last chance to indulge, while Preysing (Beery) is a manufacturer desperate to pull off a big blow.

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Pieter Montana

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I didn't have much hope for this film beforehand. I had just finished the similar star-studded "Dinner at Eight" and I didn't like it much. But soit, I gave it a chance anyway in the spirit of another-Best-Film-Oscar-I-can-check-off. Now that I think of it, I also saw "Dinner At Eight" to finish off a list (AFI 100 Laughs). What am I doing?

Well, this was a piece of cake. What style, what class this film has. The glorious hotel in the 1930s welcomes a number of guests, and as the chambermaid says "Nothing ever Happens", or so it seems. We meet a number of guests, each with their own story, but whose lives will soon intersect beautifully. My preference was for the Barrymore family. John Barrymore (Walt Disney look-alike) carries the entire glamour of the film. Cigar, tuxedo, pencil moustache! The other Barrymore, Lionel, may play a tragic character. Without a doubt the most interesting storyline. That extra tragic atmosphere that hangs around the hotel has to do with the historical background. When a film is set around 1932 in Germany, you can't help but think of the rising fascism, even though not a word is said about it. It can also be nice to just think about what happened to film characters between 1933 and 1945.

Downsides unfortunately, are the not always equally strong storylines or the acting of the others. I don't know what Greta Garbo was doing but it wasn't acting. Bad acting either by the way. I just really don't know.

3.5* I don't rule out an increase in the future. I could also live with a remake of this film.

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BBarbie

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An intriguing film, which despite its advanced age has lost little of its former glory. With its ingenious mix of drama and humor, of hope and despair, of underhand behavior and sincerity, the film provides an insight into society during the first years of the Great Depression on the eve of disastrous social developments (especially in Germany). The acting may seem a bit dated, but I think that is mainly due to the fact that the stars of that time, without exception, all had their roots in the "silent" era.

Besides the Barrymore brothers, Joan Crawford's performance certainly stands out. In my opinion, she is the absolute star of this film. In previous comments, Greta Garbo's performance has been labeled as overacting here and there. I disagree. I think that the character of the depressed ballet dancer brought this theatrical interpretation of the role with it and in my opinion, no one can do that better than Garbo.

A beautiful film with no expiration date.

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Dievegge

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Five of the biggest stars of the early talkies are part of this ensemble cast. Lionel Barrymore plays a health-challenged man; his younger brother John, a gentleman burglar with financial problems; Greta Garbo, a prima ballerina with mental breakdowns. Wallace Beery plays the shady businessman; Joan Crawford, the comforting stenographer. The Berlin hotel can be seen as an allegory of the Weimar Republic, which was in deep crisis.

It is based on a stage adaptation of a novel by Vicky Baum. The emphasis is therefore on the dialogue, but there is more to see than people talking in a room. The burglary scene shows the hotel facade from a bird's eye view. The telephone exchange, with its busy chatter, belongs to another era. There are close-ups of a cocktail shaker and a necklace. The biggest visual attraction, however, is Greta Garbo. She alternates between a fur coat, a white nightgown and a black flannel dress. The sharpness of her face is emphasized with lipstick and eyebrow pencil. Cinemagoers at the time watched this with bated breath.

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Лучший частный хостинг