"A grand hotel in the center of 1920s Berlin serves as a microcosm of the modern world in Vicki Baum's celebrated novel, a Weimar-era bestseller that retains all its verve and luster today. Among the guests of the hotel is Dr. Otternschlag, a World War I veteran whose face has been sliced in half by a shell. Day after day he emerges to read the paper in the lobby, discreetly inquiring at the desk if the letter he's been awaiting for years has arrived. Then there is Grusinskaya, a great ballerina now fighting a losing battle not so much against age as against her fear of it, and Gaigern, a sleek professional thief, who may or may not be made for each other.
Adaptations (2)
Grand Hotel has been adapted into 2 films, from 1932 to 1945. The most recent is Week-End at the Waldorf (1945).
Grand Hotel1932 · film · 112 min · dir. Edmund Goulding · IMDb ↗Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.
Week-End at the Waldorf1945 · film · 130 min · dir. Robert Z. Leonard · IMDb ↗IMDb6.6Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for a jewel thief; a soldier learns that without an operation he'll die and so looks for one last romance with a beautiful but ambitious stenographer; a cub reporter tries to get the goods on a shady man's dealing with a foreign potentate.
