Kleinhoff Hotel

Directed by Carlo Lizzani
Written by Valentino Orsini (also story) and Faliero Rosati
Starring Corinne Clery
, Bruce Robinson as Karl Axel, Katja Rupé, Rodolfo Dal Pra, Werner Pochath, Peter Kern, Carole Fouanon, Luigi Marturano, Michele Placido

Pascale, married to an architect, misses her flight to London and is forced to stay in Berlin, at the Kleinhoff Hotel where she stayed as a student. Karl, a would-be revolutionary lives in the adjoining room and Pascale spies him and his ex-girl-friend through a hole. Then she follows him to a questionable place where she is arrested by the police during a revolutionists raid. When she returns to the Kleinhoff Hotel, Pascale finds Karl crying, and enters his room to console him and they have a love affair. When Karl kills himself while she sleeps, Pascale, on awakening, coldly dresses and leaves the hotel.

Genre: Drama

Also Known As:
Passionate Strangers, The (1977)
Runtime: Italy:105
Country: Italy / West Germany
Certification: Italy:VM18

Julien-11 - 24 September 1999

Summary: God-awful German/Italian movie

This film is about a woman who misses her plane, and is forced to stay at a decayed hotel for a night. During her stay, she observes the mentally ill man staying in the room next to her's. Virtually devoid of intelligent filmmaking or writing, or any type of credible acting, this poorly dubbed movie starts off pointless and ends pointless. Plus, it's needlessly graphic. Whether or not you'll like this movie depends of your abilities to watch Bruce Robinson's scrotum for fifteen minutes nonstop.

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