

Hotel Lux
2011-10-27 · 102 min · ★ 5.9
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.
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- Directors
- Leander Haußmann
- Production companies
- Bavaria Pictures, Colonia Media Filmproduktions GmbH, Little Shark Entertainment, Bavaria Film, BSI, Beeplex, Rainer Windhager Film Production, RBB, WDR, BR, ARD Degeto, herbX film
- Countries
- Germany
- Status
- Released
Top Cast
Michael HerbigHans Zeisig
Jürgen VogelSiegfried Meyer
Thekla ReutenFrida von Oorten
Valeriy GrishkoStalin
Alexander SenderovichJeschow
Juraj KukuraWassili Ulrich
Thomas ThiemeGeorgi Dimitroff
Gennadi VengerovUpit
Josef OstendorfMama
Sebastian BlombergKarl-Heinz Müller
Sibylle CanonicaMs. Platten
Axel WandtkeWalter Ulbricht
Steffi KühnertLotte Kühn
Robert DölleJohannes R. Becher
Daniel WiemerHerbert Wehner
Matthias BrennerWilhelm Pieck
Friedrich Karl PraetoriusHansen
Johann Adam OestValetti
Uwe Dag BerlinHubert Kessel
Yevgeni SitokhinStalin's Translator #1Title information and images are supplied by TMDb. Explore our discovery guide for advice on comparing metadata and legal viewing options.
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