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Hotel Lux (2011)

Directed by Leander Haußmann

Overview

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.

Length 102 minutes

Actors

Sibylle Canonica | Steffi Kühnert | Sebastian Blomberg | Johann Adam Oest | Thomas Thieme | Matthias Brenner | Gennadi Vengerov | Yevgeni Sitokhin | Josef Ostendorf | Jürgen Vogel | Michael Herbig | Leander Haußmann | Mark Zak | Hendrik Arnst | Uwe Dag Berlin | Martin Olbertz | Torsten Michaelis | Juraj Kukura | Tomas Jester | Steffen Scheumann | Thekla Reuten | Samir Osman | Jaymes Butler | Axel Wandtke | Ina Paule Klink | Arved Birnbaum | Daniel Wiemer | Alexander Senderovich | Krzysztof Dracz | Valeriy Grishko | Friedrich Karl Praetorius | Holger Handtke | Jürgen Mikol | Marco Klammer | Boris Naujoks | Joan Pascu | Greta Bohacek | Johanna Penski | Axel Sichrovsky | Sylvia Schwarz | Gisela Neumann | Jakob Köhn | Julius Felsberg | David Kuhl | Jutta Post | Nina Weiss | Gloria Wind | Marianne Tarnowskij | Faye Anderson | Lyndsey Stokes | Holger Oppenhoff | Josef Svoboda | Guido Schlösser | Rudi Lips | Martin Langer | Tobias Koch | Thomas Bauer