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Hotel Astoria

Hotel Astoria
Falk Schuster, Alina Cyranek
Competition for the Audience Award Short Film 2020
Animated Film
Germany
2020
28 minutes
German
Subtitles: 
English

Everyone in Leipzig is familiar with the Hotel Astoria, which has stood vacant since 1996. This film takes a look back to the time when the hotel was the hotspot of the trade fair city, where professionals, politicians and guests from all over the world were entertained with the greatest possible GDR pomp. But the Stasi also came and went in the hotel. The story of an exciting chapter in the city’s history is told with archive material, staff reports, and the distinctive animations by Falk Schuster.

Kim Busch

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Director
Falk Schuster, Alina Cyranek
Script
Alina Cyranek
Editor
Alina Cyranek, Falk Schuster
Producer
Alina Cyranek, Falk Schuster
Co-Producer
MDR Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk
Sound
Florian Marquardt
Score
Florian Marquardt
Animation
Falk Schuster, Tim Romanowsky, Alexander Schmidt, Julian Quitsch