Hotel by the Hour

1970 film

Curd Jürgens
Andrea Rau

CinematographyHeinz HölscherEdited byRenate WilleMusic byErwin Halletz

Production
companies

Parnass Film
Terra Film

Distributed byConstantin Film

Release date

9 April 1970 (1970-04-09)

Running time

95 minutesCountryWest GermanyLanguageGerman

Hotel by the Hour (German title: Das Stundenhotel von St. Pauli) is a 1970 West German crime film directed by Rolf Olsen and starring Curd Jürgens, Andrea Rau, and Corny Collins.^[1] It is set in the red-light district of St. Pauli in Hamburg. A Stundenhotel is a hotel where rooms are let by the hour, similar to Japanese love hotels.

The film's sets were designed by the art director Ernst H. Albrecht.

Cast

Curd Jürgens as Kommissar Canisius
Andrea Rau as Hannelore Zibulka
Corny Collins as Nora Benoni
Rudolf Schündler as Oskar Jennewein
Michael Maien as Karl Swarowski
Brigitte Mira as Rose Schuh
Monika Hielscher as Anna
Heinrich Gies as Paul Rehschopf
Robert Wolfgang Schnell as Walter Stooth
Laurence Bien as Jürgen Möbisch
Konrad Georg as Police Commissioner Dr. Marschall
Paul Albert Krumm as Sigi Krulich
Walter Buschhoff as Lucas Freund
Gine Magnol as Inge Bauer
Marlies Petersen as Erna Machunze
Friedrich Siemers as Herbert Dreegen
Ilse Peternell as Beate Dreegen
Thomas Fischer as K. H. Killian
Angelica Ott as Marion
Gerd Frickhöffer as Adolf von Batelnigg
Yvonne Ten Hoff as Heidi Strauss
Klaus Hagen Latwesen as Rolf Hogerth
Manfred Tümmler as Peter Canisius
Manfred Spies as Kretschmann
Dieter Wagner as Egon Gold
Käte Jaenicke
Ulli Kinalzik as Franz
Gustl Meyer-Fuerst as Bill

References

^ Bock & Bergfelder, p. 232.

Bibliography

Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.