Theme of the film is about people's desperation about money and making a living. Life then during financial crisis (1929-1933) must be hard.
It is a sad ending with a actor dying and actress cheated to traveling to Berlin. It is a bit ironic that another two minor actor and actress heading for Grand Hotel in Paris. Do they really love each other? What would happen after that 13,000 marks spent? It is an open ending. But well said, people come, people go. Nothing seems to happen in Grand Hotel.
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