Small Hotel

Small Hotel (1939)

Drama

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.

Director: Piero Ballerini
Writer: Piero Ballerini

Casts

	Andrea Checchi as Andrea Toth
	Emma Gramatica as Martha Toth
	Laura Nucci as Aurora Borg
	Mino Doro as Gregory Bauer
	Bianca Doria as Anna Fargas
	Lola Braccini as Rosa Fargas
	Giovanni Grasso as dottor Kralik
	Luisella Beghi as Maria Kallmann
	Silvio Bagolini as Stefan Bartha
	Velia Cruicchi Galvani as Yvonne Guilbert
	Guido Notari as Paolo Holber
	Corrado De Cenzo as Vladimiro Skenak
	Gino Viotti as
	Olinto Cristina as Hermann Daniell
	Augusto Di Giovanni as Fellner
	Enzo Gainotti as Kalnadek
	Wanda Capodaglio as signora Hammer
	Maria Dominiani as cameriera dell'hotel
	Emilio Petacci as usciere dell'hotel
	Rossano Brazzi as

Crew