Piccolo Hotel (1939)

Cast
Altieri, Elena
Bagolino, Silvio (Stefano Bartha)
Barbarisi, Guido
Beghi, Luisella (Maria Kalmann)
Braccini, Lola (Rosa Fargas)
Brazzi, Rossano [appare non accreditato]
Capodaglio, Wanda
Checchi, Andrea (Andrea Toth)
Chiantoni, Renato
Cristina, Olinto (Hermann Daniell)
DeCenzo, Corrado (Wladimiro Skenak)
DeLaurentiis, Dino
Desta Fiore, Giuseppina
DiGiovanni, Augusto (Fellner)
Dominiani, Maria
Doria, Bianca (Anna Fargas)
Doro, Mino (Gregory Bauer)
Gainotto, Enzo (Kalnadek)
Galvani, Velia Cruicchi (Yvonne Guilbert)
Genazzani, Osvaldo
Gramatica, Emma (Marta Toth)
Grasso, Giovanni (dottor Kralik)
Marengo, Lina
Miglari, Armando
Minora, Lina Tartara
Notari, Guido (Paolo Holber)
Nucci, Laura (Aurora Burg)
Petacci, Emilio
Pucci, Mario
Rago, Rosina
Tedeschi, Baldassare
Viotti, Gino (notaio Habern)

Director
Piero Ballerini
Salvatore Cuffaro

Duration
85 minutes

Country
Italy

Synopsis/Review
As Emma Gramatica appeared in a primary role in this film, our guess is that Rossano appeared in non-speaking supporting roles, both in this film and in “Il destino di Tasca” while still a member of the Gramatica theater group. Synopsis: 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 middle-European. Piccolo Hotel was one of the entries in the Vienna Biennial Film Festival.” (Source: Hal Erickson, Rovi)

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