The paths of guests and employees cross at the Palace Hotel in St. Moritz: A chambermaid experiences financial difficulties. A guest has been robbed. A thief is caught. An assistant cook is promoted to waiter. And there’s no shortage of love in this small world of the great Hotel Palace. Keeping an orderly eye over proceedings is the hotel’s beautiful patron, whose heart is in the right place.
Paul Hubschmid
Fredy
Käthe Gold
Emilie, Zimmermädchen
Anne-Marie Blanc
Inhaberin des Hotels
Claude Farell
Madame Perrat
Liliana Tellini
Speranza, Zimmermädchen
Gustav Knuth
Loosli, Kellermeister
Emil Hegetschweiler
Staub, Zimmerkellner
Zarli Carigiet
Giachem, Konditor
Max Haufler
Hunziker, Oberheizer
The paths of guests and employees cross at the Palace Hotel in St. Moritz: A chambermaid experiences financial difficulties. A guest has been robbed. A thief is caught. An assistant cook is promoted to waiter. And there’s no shortage of love in this small world of the great Hotel Palace. Keeping an orderly eye over proceedings is the hotel’s beautiful patron, whose heart is in the right place.
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