The Bartender at the Ritz

In June 1940, when German troops entered Paris, a strict curfew was imposed everywhere except the luxury hotel Ritz. Here, in search of a true French way of life, guests of the hotel met with Paris’s high society, and the famous bartender was Frank Meier.

Survival becomes adaptation, and Frank Meier, a talented diplomat, tries to win the favor of German officers. For four years, representatives of the Gestapo will raise their glasses to Coco Chanel, the infamous widow of the Ritz, or to Sacha Guitry. In this place, men and women—collaborators and resistance members, heroes and traitors—will love, betray each other, and fight for their ideas of a world order.

Most of them do not suspect that Frank Meier, an Austrian emigrant and a veteran of World War I, keeps a secret: he is Jewish.