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Hallo - Hotel Sacher... Portier! - Die Gipfelkonferenz
episode 1.1
Austria / Germany 1973
produced by Gottfried Schwarz, Hans-Jürgen Bobermin for Schönbrunn-Film/ORF, ZDF
directed by Hermann Kugelstadt
starring Fritz Eckhardt, Elfriede Ott, Reinhold Tischler, Maxi Böhm, Marianne Schönauer, Manfred Inger, Ossy Kolmann, Josef Hendrichs, Winnie Markus, Ruth Brinkman, Christian Futterknecht, Franz Stoss, Christian Schratt, Oskar Willner, Erich Schwanda, Gerhard Tötschinger, Hermann Laforet, Trixi Danell, Marielies Blaskovich, Eva-Susanne Knoche, Linda Koch, Lotte Lang
created and written by Fritz Eckhardt, music by Carl Loubé
TV-series Hallo - Hotel Sacher... Portier!
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Oswald Huber (Fritz Eckhardt), concierge at Vienna's best address, the
Hotel Sacher, is tasked with a near impossible task, to move out two of
the hotel's best guests, opera singer Mrs. Klotz (Winnie Markus) and art
collector Mr. Whinch (Christian Futterknecht), out of their rooms (and the
hotel as such) for a couple of nights starting today as the presidents of
the USA and the USSR are meeting in Vienna for a top secret summit. Lieing
through his teeth, Huber manages just that without alienating either one
or the other - and then the summit doesn't take place. However, both Mrs.
Klotz and Mr. Whinch are incredibly thankful to Huber, as the former got
back together with her estranged husband due to having had stayed at
another hotel for the night, and the wild goose chase Huber has sent Mr.
Whinch on got him a real Rembrandt - and both tip Huber royally, enough
for him to lend his sister Resi's (Elfriede Ott) boyfriend Hrdlicka (Josef
Hendrichs) some money for the electric oven he wanted to buy ... Now
this is a series that has felt old-fashioned even when it was made half a
century ago, as it was never meant to be anything but, a throwback to
good, clean Austrian boulevard comedies from the 1950s, 1930s, or even the
silent era, and stageplays from even earlier. Likewise, the ensemble cast,
led by the show's writer and creator Fritz Eckhardt, is full of by then
tried-and-true Austrian actors and actresses which would appeal to a
mostly older audience. Now of course, viewed 50 years after its original
release, this first episode of the series rakes in at least some nostalgia
points for its anachronistic yet innocent approach to TV entertainment -
and yet, objectively speaking it just isn't very good television, merely
some warmed up ideas brought across in a rather basic fashion.
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