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The Million Dollar Hotel

Deutschland USA 1999/2000 Spielfilm

"The Million Dollar Hotel" is a story of friendship, betrayal and the overwhelming power of unconditional love. A gang of unique outcasts and misfits live in a downtown Los Angeles fleapit, known locally as the "Million Dollar Hotel".

Their story is seen through the eyes of Tom Tom, a young man who serves them all like some sort of "Beggar′s Butler". He has a childlike, innocent mind. Tom Tom has fallen head over heels for the tarnished street angel Eloise. As their relationship develops, the Million Dollar Hotel becomes the focus of a police investigation: one of its residents, the engaging junkie Izzy, has come to a grisly end. He fell off the roof. Or was he pushed? To the amazement of his neighbors, he is revealed to have been son of a billionaire media magnate. Every inhabitant of the Million Dollar Hotel falls under suspicion in the enquiry led by FBI hardliner, Detective Skinner. As Skinner′s investigation proceeds, the lines between murder and suicide, sane and deranged, become very blurred indeed.

Source: German films Service & Marketing GmbH

 

Credits

Director

  • Wim Wenders

Screenplay

  • Nicholas Klein

Director of photography

  • Phedon Papamichael

Editing

  • Tatiana S. Riegel

Music

  • U2 (IE) (u.a.)
  • John Hassell
  • Bono
  • Daniel Lanois
  • Brian Eno

Cast

  • Milla Jovovich
    Eloise
  • Jeremy Davies
    Tom Tom
  • Mel Gibson
    Detektiv Skinner
  • Jimmy Smits
    Geronimo
  • Peter Stormare
    Dixie
  • Amanda Plummer
    Vivien
  • Gloria Stuart
    Jessica
  • Bono
    Mann in Hotel Lobby
  • Tom Bower
    Hector
  • Donal Logue
    Charley Best

Production company

  • Road Movies Filmproduktion GmbH (Berlin)

Producer

  • Mel Gibson
  • Deepak Nayar
  • Bono
  • Nicholas Klein
  • Bruce Davey
  • Wim Wenders

Alle Credits

Director

  • Wim Wenders

Assistant director

  • Christine Larson
  • Laura Nisbet
  • Andrew Ward

Script supervisor

  • Sylvie Michel

Screenplay

  • Nicholas Klein

Dialogue

  • Russell Farmarco

Story

  • Bono
  • Nicholas Klein

Director of photography

  • Phedon Papamichael

Camera operator

  • Kirk Gardner
  • Wally Pfister

Steadycam operator

  • Kirk Gardner

Production design

  • Robert D. Freed
  • Arabella A. Serell

Set design

  • Will Batts
  • Bella Serrrell
  • Tiffany Payne

Storyboard

  • John Coven

Title

  • Melissa Elliott

Make-up artist

  • Rene Dashiell
  • Amanda Carroll
  • Debbie Zoller (Maske-Leitung)

Costume design

  • Nancy Steiner
  • Marina Marit

Hairdresser

  • D. J. Plumb

Editing

  • Tatiana S. Riegel

Assistant editor

  • Lin Coleman

Sound design

  • Eimo Weber

Sound

  • Lee Orloff

Music recording

  • Sharon Boyle

Foley artist

  • Monique Reymond

Audio mixing

  • Jefrey Perkins

Special effects

  • Philip D. Bartko (Spezialeffekte-Leitung)
  • David Domeyer
  • Kristine Onesky
  • George Vrattos

Stunt co-ordinator

  • Bobby Brown

Music

  • U2 (IE) (u.a.)
  • John Hassell
  • Bono
  • Daniel Lanois
  • Brian Eno

Cast

  • Milla Jovovich
    Eloise
  • Jeremy Davies
    Tom Tom
  • Mel Gibson
    Detektiv Skinner
  • Jimmy Smits
    Geronimo
  • Peter Stormare
    Dixie
  • Amanda Plummer
    Vivien
  • Gloria Stuart
    Jessica
  • Bono
    Mann in Hotel Lobby
  • Tom Bower
    Hector
  • Donal Logue
    Charley Best
  • Bud Cort
    Shorty
  • Julian Sands
    Terence Scopey
  • Conrad Roberts
    Stix
  • Harris Yulin
    Stanley Goldkiss
  • Charlayne Woodard
    Jean Swift
  • Ellen Cleghorne
    Marlene
  • Richard Edson
    Joe
  • Tito Larriva
    Jesu
  • Jon Hassel
    Hollow
  • Justin Lafoe
    Marlenes Sohn
  • Ezra Buzzington
    Reporter
  • David Stifel
    Schreiender
  • Winston J. Rocha
    Kellner
  • Frederique van der Wal
    Diamanten Frau
  • Roger Stoneburner
    Punker
  • Erik Rondel
    Punker

Production company

  • Road Movies Filmproduktion GmbH (Berlin)

in co-production with

  • Kintop Pictures (Los Angeles)
  • Icon Pictures (Los Angeles)

Producer

  • Mel Gibson
  • Deepak Nayar
  • Bono
  • Nicholas Klein
  • Bruce Davey
  • Wim Wenders

Executive producer

  • Ulrich Felsberg

Line producer

  • Sabrina S. Sutherland (Production Supervision)

Unit production manager

  • Deepak Nayar

Location manager

  • Jeremy Alter

Production assistant

  • Rose-Marie Couture

Production coordinator

  • Rose-Marie Couture

Post-production

  • James K. Jensen (Post-Production-Überwachung)

Original distributor

  • Concorde Filmverleih GmbH (München)

Shoot

    • 26.01.1999: Los Angeles
Duration:
3347 m, 122 min
Format:
35mm, 1:2,35
Video/Audio:
Eastmancolor, Dolby Stereo Digital
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 31.01.2000, 83989, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Kinostart (DE): 10.02.2000;
TV-Erstsendung (DE): 01.01.2003, ARD

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (DE US) The Million Dollar Hotel

Versions

Digitalisierte Fassung

Duration:
124 min
Format:
DCP, 1:2,39 (CinemaScope)
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Dolby

Original

Duration:
3347 m, 122 min
Format:
35mm, 1:2,35
Video/Audio:
Eastmancolor, Dolby Stereo Digital
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 31.01.2000, 83989, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Kinostart (DE): 10.02.2000;
TV-Erstsendung (DE): 01.01.2003, ARD

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