There are places which, at certain specific points of time, can provide microcosmic summation of all the contradictions of the rest of the world. One such location serves as setting to *Hotel Shanghai*, 1997 German two-part television miniseries directed by Peter Patzak. The miniseries is adapted from eponymous 1939 novel by Austrian writer Vicki Baum. The plot is set in Shanghai, city that represents commercial hub…



