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Hotel Lux

2011-10-27 · 102 min · ★ 5.9

Comedy · Drama

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 HerbigMichael HerbigHans Zeisig
Jürgen VogelJürgen VogelSiegfried Meyer
Thekla ReutenThekla ReutenFrida von Oorten
Valeriy GrishkoValeriy GrishkoStalin
Alexander SenderovichAlexander SenderovichJeschow
Juraj KukuraJuraj KukuraWassili Ulrich
Thomas ThiemeThomas ThiemeGeorgi Dimitroff
Gennadi VengerovGennadi VengerovUpit
Josef OstendorfJosef OstendorfMama
Sebastian BlombergSebastian BlombergKarl-Heinz Müller
Sibylle CanonicaSibylle CanonicaMs. Platten
Axel WandtkeAxel WandtkeWalter Ulbricht
Steffi KühnertSteffi KühnertLotte Kühn
Robert DölleRobert DölleJohannes R. Becher
Daniel WiemerDaniel WiemerHerbert Wehner
Matthias BrennerMatthias BrennerWilhelm Pieck
Friedrich Karl PraetoriusFriedrich Karl PraetoriusHansen
Johann Adam OestJohann Adam OestValetti
Uwe Dag BerlinUwe Dag BerlinHubert Kessel
Yevgeni SitokhinYevgeni SitokhinStalin's Translator #1

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