(4) The High Society of Monaco
It‘s insider‘s talk that not the Grimaldi family is the richest family in the Duchy of Monaco, but the Pastors. The family branch around building entrepreneur Victor Pastor has made a fortune by renting out 20,000 luxury apartements in Monaco, to tenants like Claudia Schiffer, Karl Lagerfeld or Ringo Starr. Having a sumptous apartment in Monaco can be the best way for the really rich to save money.
German fashion guru Wolfgang Joop explains what it‘s like to live in the super safe haven of millionaires, overlooking the mediterranean sea from one of the best penthouses in town. „Here, there is dinosaurs alive to be seen.“ They‘re having lunch at the „Rampoldi“. Or at „Stars‘n‘bars“, where formula one driver Jochen Maas is often having his business meetings.
Yet Alain Ducasse is reigning the world of chefs from his kitchen at the Hotel de Paris. Victor Pastor explains how Monaco started. And Prince Albert of Monaco describes how his Duchy will look like in the future, extended with an artificial island. With more space for yachts and millionaires. There is hardly a place on the planet, where being rich is the most normal thing in the world. Nowhere else can reach people feel so at ease, as tehy can here. Thousands of surveillance cameras almost guarantee: There is no autograph hunters, no beggars, no car thefts. The occasional economic crime or weapons deal do not at all spoil the picture of prosperity.
*Original German title: Mondän!
German fashion guru Wolfgang Joop explains what it‘s like to live in the super safe haven of millionaires, overlooking the mediterranean sea from one of the best penthouses in town. „Here, there is dinosaurs alive to be seen.“ They‘re having lunch at the „Rampoldi“. Or at „Stars‘n‘bars“, where formula one driver Jochen Maas is often having his business meetings.
Yet Alain Ducasse is reigning the world of chefs from his kitchen at the Hotel de Paris. Victor Pastor explains how Monaco started. And Prince Albert of Monaco describes how his Duchy will look like in the future, extended with an artificial island. With more space for yachts and millionaires. There is hardly a place on the planet, where being rich is the most normal thing in the world. Nowhere else can reach people feel so at ease, as tehy can here. Thousands of surveillance cameras almost guarantee: There is no autograph hunters, no beggars, no car thefts. The occasional economic crime or weapons deal do not at all spoil the picture of prosperity.
*Original German title: Mondän!
The Mondän! (Glamoroso!) series was nominated for the national Adolf-Grimme-Prize in 2000
First aired 1st June 1998, 21.50 pm on ZDF
4,29 million viewers, 14,8 % market share
The Mondän! series had unbelievable 67 reruns between 1998 and 2011.
Written, directed and produced by
Petra Höfer Freddie Röckenhaus
DOP: Thomas Schäfer
Additional Camera: Simone Pera
Editing: Jörg Wegner
Cast:
Prinz Albert Grimaldi von Monaco
Wolfgang Joop
Victor und Jean-Victor Pastor
Alain Ducasse
Gildo Pastor-Pallanca
Serge von Jugoslawien
Rainer Engel
Jürgen Klinsmann
Jochen Maas
Editor at ZDF: Wolfgang Homering
A colourFIELD production, commissioned by ZDF