Luxury Hotel


Hotel de Lux is a 1992 Romanian film directed by Dan Pița. It won the Silver Lion at the 49th Venice Film Festival. The film has 105 minute running time and includes several important actors in the Romanian cinema. Irina Petrescu, Valentin Popescu and Ştefan Iordache are key players in the film. The film was selected as the Romanian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 65th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

Synopsis

An ambitious young chief of room tries to renew the atmosphere of a restaurant located inside a luxury hotel. Inexplicably, his initiatives wake the opposition of his superiors. But penetrating the depth of relations between people involved in this plot comes to light an insidious fabric of lies that prevent the development of a normal life and flourishing. The location of filming was Casa Poporului, the giant building from Bucharest.