The film tells the story of five guests in the most luxurious hotel in Berlin, Germany. The five guests had never met each other, each had their own worries, but the wheel of fate took them to completely different places.
A bookkeeper who was sick and ready to spend a lot of money and died, an entrepreneur on the verge of bankruptcy, a baron who is struggling with life is a thief, a neurotic Russian ballet star (Garbo) has his career blocked, and a beautiful and shrewd typist (Crawford) Seek upward opportunities. With different purposes, they began their story in the hotel. The luckiest thing is the bookkeeper, who won a huge sum of money by a gamble, and got on the train to Paris with the typist to start a new life. The poor baron was beaten to death by the entrepreneur when he stole. Entrepreneurs went to jail. Encouraged by the passionate love of the baron, the ballerina has a turnaround in her career.
Compared with the previous four Oscar-winning films, this film has a novel way of telling the story. The five characters appear in parallel, converge in the same space, and interpret a dramatic story. The connection between the stories is natural and smooth. This method of storytelling was later widely adopted, especially in TV series, where many large hotels, small teams, and communities were used as themes to tell the fate of characters.
"Grand hotel, always same, people come people go. nothing ever happens" People come and go, and the hotel is silently watching the drama life. After watching the five Oscars for the best films, it is a peculiar feeling, as if watching a toddler, starting to learn to walk steadily, or even run slowly.
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