A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
May 8, 2025
Original Title:
Memory Hotel
Genres:
Animation | Drama
Production Companies:
Heinrich Sabl Filmproduktion
Production Countries:
France | Germany | Qatar
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 100
Germany, 1945. World War II is nearing its climactic end. Five-year-old Sophie and her parents are refugees fleeing from the advancing Red Army. They hide in a hotel, where they encounter Nazi officer Scharf and Hitler Youth member Beckmann. As the Russians come closer, Sophie falls into a lift and is knocked unconscious. Meanwhile, Scharf accidentally kills Sophie’s mother and Wassily, a paratrooper, kills her father. Time passes and teenage Sophie works for Soviet soldiers as a kitchen maid in the hotel. Food sometimes disappears, but Sophie finds the culprit: Beckmann, who has been hiding in a corridor beneath the hotel since the war ended. As an adult, Sophie reluctantly marries Wassily and develops a relationship with Beckmann. Decades go by; the Russians leave and Scharf takes over the hotel. Sophie convinces Beckmann to leave, and the pair head for the North Sea, turning their backs on the hotel and its memories.
Animation:
Florence Corre
Heinrich Sabl
Assistant Editor:
Noémie T.J. Phillipson
Michael Amstad
Camera Operator:
Heinrich Sabl
Character Designer:
Katrin Michel
Color Grading:
Tim Kersken
Goran Mikic
Henry Labs
Compositing Artist:
Luna Z. Vater
Heinrich Sabl
Michael Amstad
Markus 'Maggi' Selchow
Costumer:
Gesine Richter
Katrin Michel
Director:
Heinrich Sabl
Director of Photography:
Andy Kaiser
Editor:
Enrico Basl
Ute Schall
First Assistant "A" Camera:
Elisabeth Kirchhoff
First Assistant "B" Camera:
Oliver Satorius
First Assistant "C" Camera:
Tristan Blust
Foley Artist:
Martin Langenbach
Lighting Director:
Andreas Schild
Heinrich Sabl
Loader:
Ingo Schütze
Hans Moser
Andreas Markscheffel
Music:
Tom Mäwers
Erik Lautenschlaeger
Musician:
Anton Peys
Ingo Günther
Tom Krimi
Erik Lautenschlaeger
Stephan Kunz
christian Raake
Producer:
Heinrich Sabl
Philippe Bober
Set Designer:
Matthias Mücke
Harald Csipai
Stefan Waltz
Gesine Richter
Henry Labs
Marius Dreger
Sound Designer:
Jochen Jezussek
Heinrich Bals
Luise Hodmann
Heinrich Sabl
Torsten Ratheischak
Sound Engineer:
Guy Sternberg
Sound Mixer:
Jochen Jezussek
Sound Recordist:
Fernand Kenzler
Writer:
Heinrich Sabl
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