Grand Hotel

In a grand hotel in Berlin. At that time, the entire Germany was shrouded in the shadow of economic crisis. Many people from different walks of life gather in the luxurious hotel. Among them are Plessinger, a financial tycoon who is in trouble and avoiding the limelight, Grushinskaya, a ballerina who is helpless and wants to commit suicide, the old Baron von Gegen who was bankrupted by gambling and made a living by stealing, Plessinger's former relative, the lonely old man Klingland, and the young and beautiful but greedy and selfish stenographer Fran Ling, etc. This 5th Academy Award for Best Picture is a masterpiece of MGM's first "all-star movie" in the early 1930s. The entire film uses a luxurious hotel in Berlin as the stage of life, showing the bizarre encounters of five groups of characters on the same day. Although the narrative technique is quite satisfactory, the performances of several big stars are quite exciting, fully grasping the personalities and situations of the characters, including: a Russian ballerina facing a career crisis, a baron addicted to gambling, a small person suffering from a terminal illness, an entrepreneur, etc. These characters play out the joys and sorrows of life in a three-dimensional intertwined way. The plot develops smoothly. Although the scene is limited to a large hotel, the characters flow naturally. The story was later told in "Hotel Berlin" and "Weekend"