Hotel Imperial is a 1927 American silent war drama film directed by Mauritz Stiller and released by Paramount Pictures.

[1][2][3] Officer Paul Almasy is separated from his unit behind enemy lines and hides in the Hotel Imperial in Lemberg (nowadays Lviv, Ukraine), where chambermaid Anna disguises him as a waiter.

Paul later kills the Russian spy Petroff and Anna arranges the room to depict the death as being a suicide.

[3] In a departure from her former vampish roles, and Negri depicted Anna as tense and fidgeting, experiencing the anxiety of war time noncombatents, a woman surrounded by foreign army men in the hotel.

She watches carefully and, when she sees the need, takes decisive action to avoid sexual assault and save her lover and, indirectly, her nation.