Piccolo Hotel (aka Small Hotel) uses the titular establishment to weave together a vast tapestry of subplots, a la Grand Hotel. The guests include a domineering mother (Lola Braccini), her petulant daughter (Bianca Doria) and the daughter's gigolo boyfriend (Guido Notari). Also on hand is a worldly vamp (Laura Nucci) who also falls for the boyfriend, and the chronic-gambler son (Andrea Checchi) of the hotel's self-sacrificing landlady (Emma Grammatica). Though the film is set in Budapest, the characters are more Mediterranean than mittel-European. Piccolo Hotel was one of the entries in the Vienna Biennial Film Festival.
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24 people
Andrea Checchi
Andrea Toth
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Emma Gramatica
Martha Toth
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Piero Ballerini
Eugenio Fontana
Laura Nucci
Aurora Borg
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Gregory Bauer
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Bianca Doria
Anna Fargas
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Lola Braccini
Rosa Fargas
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Giovanni Grasso
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Luisella Beghi
Maria Kallmann
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Stefan Bartha
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Piero Ballerini Director · Ugo Lombardi Cinematographer Pietro Benedetti Editor
First release January 10, 1939 · Produced in Italy · Original title Piccolo hotel
Production
Alfa Film
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Italy
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Original title
Piccolo hotel
Original language
Italian
Spoken on screen
Italian
Release dates
Italy · January 10, 1939
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No release date listed for United States.
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