Hotel Cæsar
| Hotel Cæsar | |
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| Genre | Soap opera |
| Created by |
Peter Emanuel Falck Christian Wikander |
| Written by | Tom Sterri (2006-12) Arne Berggren (2012-14) Marie Hafting (2014-present) |
| Starring | See Cast |
| Country of origin | Norway |
| Original language(s) | Norwegian |
| No. of episodes | 2922 (as of 18. January 2016) |
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| Executive producer(s) | Peter Emanuel Falck Christian Wikander Tobias Bringholm Ingemar Olsson |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | TV 2 |
| Original release | 24 October 1998 – present |
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| Website | |
Hotel Cæsar is a Norwegian soap opera that has been broadcast Monday to Friday on TV 2 since 1998 (Autumn 2006 and 2010–present: Monday to Thursday). It was created by Swedish duo Peter Emanuel Falck and Christian Wikander. The show consists of more than 3,000 episodes, making it the longest running drama in television in Scandinavia.
The story lines are centered around a fictional hotel in Oslo, its employees, and the Anker-Hansen family. From the start, CEO and widower Georg Anker-Hansen (Toralv Maurstad) was one of the most central figures in the series and his romance with the escort girl Ninni Krogstad (Henriette Lien) was the main story. After a year Georg died of incurable cancer in the pancreas, and Ninni inherited the entire concern, which led to major conflicts with Georg's dominating mother, Astrid (Sossen Krogh), and especially Georg's children, Juni (Anette Hoff), Jens August (Kim Kolstad), and Julie (Elin Sogn).
So far, the series was mostly inspired by the history of Janni Spies, where Janni Brodersen married the much older Danish tourism king Simon Spies, and inherited millions when he died. It gave the idea to the hotel-owner Georg Anker-Hansen and the escort girl Ninni Krogstad.
The story of Georg's daughter Juni was also pretty much in the center in the beginning, due to her alcoholism. It received great attention in Norwegian media. The show received even more attention when the half siblings Jens-August (Kim Kolstad) and Charlotte Iversen (Kristin Frogner) began a relationship without knowing that they were siblings.
Later, the series focused on topics such as racism, kidnapping, rape, abortion, trafficking, drugs, pyromania, homosexuality, murder and other controversial topics.
In autumn 2004, episode No. 1000 of the series was sent, where Toralv Maurstad made a guest appearance as Georg in some of the characters dreams.
In January 2006, the series changed its genre and appeared as a more innovative and modern soap with more action, humor, sex, violence and drama. The show received massive media publicity because of its controversial content and early prime time. After the sudden change in the series, the viewing rates decreased, and this resulted as of January 2007, that the show gradually returned to its old style.
Years later it was discovered that Georg's deceased wife, Ingeborg Anker-Hansen, had an affair with Harald Hilldring, which resulted in the birth of Julie Anker-Hansen, who was the artist and the outsider of the family. She learned about this through her mother's diaries. Julie also claimed Georg responsible for her mother's illness, and among her siblings, she's the one who have the smallest issue about being against her family's opinions.
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