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