Hotel Adlon, from movie director Uli Edel (Last Exit to Brooklyn), will arrive on All 4’s Walter Presents on 2nd June 2017.
The German series sports an all-star cast that includes Josefine PreuĆ, Helino Ferch, Marie BƤumer, Burghart Klaussner, Sunnyi Melles and Thomas Thieme.
Hotel Adlon tells the heart-wrenching story of the family behind Berlin’s Adlon Hotel. It is inspired by the the events that marked the first 90 years of Germanyās most iconic hotel.
In 1904, unmarried teenager Alma Schadt gives birth to a daughter, Sonja. To avoid a scandal, Almaās parents – Gustaf and Otille Schadt, friends and patrons of Lorenz Adlon – pretend the child is their own. In doing so, they create a secret that will forever entwine the two families. In the 1920ās, Sonja moves into the hotel as a young woman and experiences the glitz, glamour and hedonistic parties of the Golden Twenties. Whilst there, she falls in love with a Jewish pianist and left-wing journalist Julian Zimmermann but when the Naziās come into power, their young loverās idyll comes crashing down.
When it launched in Germany, Hotel Adlon scored record ratings of over 25.5 million viewers across three evenings.
The complete series of Hotel Adlon will be available on All 4ās Walter Presents from Friday 2nd June 2017.