Film

Hotel Lux

2011 · 1h 42m · Comedy · Drama

IMDb

6.0

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.

Michael Herbig

Hans Zeisig

Jürgen Vogel

Siegfried Meyer

Thekla Reuten

Frida von Oorten

Valeriy Grishko

Stalin

Alexander Senderovich

Jeschow

Juraj Kukura

Wassili Ulrich

Thomas Thieme

Georgi Dimitroff

Gennadi Vengerov

Upit

Josef Ostendorf

Mama

Sebastian Blomberg

Karl-Heinz Müller

Sibylle Canonica

Ms. Platten

Axel Wandtke

Walter Ulbricht

Steffi Kühnert

Lotte Kühn

Robert Dölle

Johannes R. Becher

Daniel Wiemer

Herbert Wehner

Matthias Brenner

Wilhelm Pieck

• Leander HaußmannScreenplay · Director
• Corinna EichProducer
• Günter RohrbachProducer
• Hagen BogdanskiDirector of Photography
• Ralf WengenmayrOriginal Music Composer
• Hansjörg WeißbrichEditor

Release date

October 27, 2011

Status

Released

Original language

German

Runtime

1h 42m

Rated

6

Genres

Comedy, Drama