AT THE FABER

The place where people meet

At the Faber is set in and around an atmospheric family hotel, introducing some of Denmark’s best script writers, best actors, and directed by Morten Arnfred whose previous work include co-directing Lars von Trier’s The Kindom.

The three-levelled captivating story keeps surprising in each and every episode. We follow the on-going drama in the family and between the regular staff, we meet a new interesting guest in each episode, and we soon realise there is a third mysterious story going on in the old building.

Erik Faber is the strong-willed patriarch who has fought a hard fight to revive the old hotel and make it into a modern success. He is married to Alice, the skilful housekeeper and hostess who grew up at the hotel. She remembers the glorious 1950s when her grandfather managed the hotel, and the terrible decline when her father took over.Their sons also work at the hotel. Adam is ambitious, slaving away as hotel manager in order to gain his father’s approval, but often in vain. His younger brother, Nikolaj, is a charming layabout who works as a waiter, but only for want of anything better. Their sister, Julie, has just come home after years in New York where she disappointed her father by pursuing her dream to become an actress instead of learning the hotel business.

The family, the seven regular staff, and the hotel guests share joys and sorrows great and small. That is, whenever they have the temerity to poke their noses into one another’s affairs.But something far greater than the petty concerns and intrigues of everyday life is at work in the old building.

Original title:

Hotellet

Release year:

2000

Director:

Morten Arnfred & Morten Giese

Sound:

Ole Arnfred & Jon Bruland

Producer:

Camilla Hammerich

Episodes:

60

Running length:

45 minutes

Production company:

Jarowskij Danmark A/S for TV2/DANMARK

 

Categories:

• Drama series