Hotel Lux (2011)

Poster for Hotel Lux

In 1938 Hans Zeisig, an apolitical comedian, impersonator and cabaret actor, flees with a Russian passport (instead of American, which he would have preferred) from Nazi-Berlin, and finds himself in the legendary Hotel Lux, the 'lost paradise' of the Comintern, in Moscow. Everyone believes that Zeisig is a man named Hansen, Hitler's personal astrologer. But Zeisig quickly realizes that he's gone from the frying pan into the fire. In the Hotel Lux he meets his friends Frida and later Meyer again, still passionate communists. For the three idealists an adventure between love and death begins to run his course.

Cast & Crew

Director
Leander Haußmann
  • Profile picture of Michael Herbig
    Hans Zeisig Michael Herbig
  • Profile picture of Jürgen Vogel
    Siggi Meyer Jürgen Vogel
  • Profile picture of Thekla Reuten
    Frida von Oorten Thekla Reuten
  • Profile picture of Valeriy Grishko
    Josef Stalin Valeriy Grishko
  • Profile picture of Juraj Kukura
    Wassili Ulrich Juraj Kukura
  • Profile picture of Friedrich Karl Praetorius
    Jan Hansen Friedrich Karl Praetorius
  • Profile picture of Thomas Thieme
    Georgi Dimitroff Thomas Thieme
  • Profile picture of Sebastian Blomberg
    Karl-Heinz Müller Sebastian Blomberg

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