Drama · Romance
American
1932 · Directed by Edmund Goulding · 112 min
Over a few days at a luxurious Berlin hotel, strangers with money, debts, illness, vanity and loneliness cross paths in the lobby, corridors and bedrooms. MGM puts its biggest stars into one interlocking, glossy, bittersweet drama.
Why it matters in cinema history
The defining example of MGM's prestige ensemble picture and the template for the 'Grand Hotel' format, in which one location holds several intersecting stories. It also marks the peak of the studio star system in the early sound era.
Watch with intention
Watch it as a machine for connecting strangers: the hotel is the real main character, and each star is a different way of being in it.
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