(2) The High Society of St. Moritz
At the Swiss mountains of the Kanton Engadin the idea of winter holidays were actually invented. In St. Moritz holiday makers sip champagne at the ski station and drive to the lift station with the hotel‘s Rolls Royce. Millionaires who have never stayed at the Badrutt‘s Palace, played curling at the ice rink of the Kulm Hotel or has danced all night long at the Dracula Club, founded by Gunter Sachs, cannot really claim to be rich.
Gunter Sachs once produced a film like a love affair on his favourite resort. And he can still tell stories about the air and the new spirit of liberation among the young heirs and the other young rich of the so called jetset of the roaring sixties. Being allowed to have a ride down the Cresta run ice tunnel, lying on a skeleton, was the ultimate award for the crazy generation. At least according to Sachs and ro Krupp heir Arnold von Bohlen. Breaking a rib on the Cresta Run was like the graduate of the times. Nowadays Albert of Monaco is firing down the bobsleigh run in more serious, more worldly competions, trying to get fit for Olympic Winter Games. While Ex-007 Roger Moore is raising serious monies for UNICEF, of course at Badrutt‘s Palace.
*Original German title: Mondän!
Gunter Sachs once produced a film like a love affair on his favourite resort. And he can still tell stories about the air and the new spirit of liberation among the young heirs and the other young rich of the so called jetset of the roaring sixties. Being allowed to have a ride down the Cresta run ice tunnel, lying on a skeleton, was the ultimate award for the crazy generation. At least according to Sachs and ro Krupp heir Arnold von Bohlen. Breaking a rib on the Cresta Run was like the graduate of the times. Nowadays Albert of Monaco is firing down the bobsleigh run in more serious, more worldly competions, trying to get fit for Olympic Winter Games. While Ex-007 Roger Moore is raising serious monies for UNICEF, of course at Badrutt‘s Palace.
*Original German title: Mondän!
The Mondän! (Glamoroso!) series was nominated for the national Adolf-Grimme-Prize in 2000
First aired 27th May 1998, 21.00 pm on ZDF
The Mondän! series had unbelievable 67 reruns between 1998 and 2011.
Written and directed by
Petra Höfer
Freddie Röckenhaus
DOP:
Barnie Beckschulte
Matin Schmitz
Editing:
Jörg Wegner
Producer St. Moritz:
Thomas Forstkamp
Cast:
Gunter Sachs
Roger Moore
Arnold von Bohlen und Halbach
Prince Albert of Monaco
and many more
Editor at ZDF:
Wolfgang Homering
A colourFIELD production, commissioned by ZDF