Hotel Lux

Hotel Lux (2011)

ComedyDrama

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.

Director: Leander Haußmann
Writer: Leander Haußmann

Casts

	Michael Herbig as Hans Zeisig
	Jürgen Vogel as Siegfried Meyer
	Thekla Reuten as Frida von Oorten
	Valeriy Grishko as Stalin
	Alexander Senderovich as Jeschow
	Juraj Kukura as Wassili Ulrich
	Thomas Thieme as Georgi Dimitroff
	Gennadi Vengerov as Upit
	Josef Ostendorf as Mama
	Sebastian Blomberg as Karl-Heinz Müller
	Sibylle Canonica as Ms. Platten
	Axel Wandtke as Walter Ulbricht
	Steffi Kühnert as Lotte Kühn
	Robert Dölle as Johannes R. Becher
	Daniel Wiemer as Herbert Wehner
	Matthias Brenner as Wilhelm Pieck
	Friedrich Karl Praetorius as Hansen
	Johann Adam Oest as Valetti
	Uwe Dag Berlin as Hubert Kessel
	Yevgeni Sitokhin as Stalin's Translator #1
	Steffen Scheumann as Stalin's Translator #2
	Jürgen Mikol as Fritz Petter
	Julius Felsberg as Karlchen
	David Kuhl as Bertchen
	Greta Bohacek as Marlene
	Leander Haußmann as Stage Manager
	Ina Paule Klink as Dancer / Starlet
	Arved Birnbaum as Obersturmbannführer
	Axel Sichrovsky as SS Man
	Holger Handtke as Ribbentrop
	Jakob Köhn as Molotow
	Krzysztof Dracz as Berija
	Samir Osman as NKVD Man #1
	Mark Zak as NKVD Man #2
	Tomas Jester as NKVD Man #3
	Joan Pascu as Delegate
	Boris Naujoks as Frida's Comrade
	Johanna Penski as Passerby
	Jutta Post as Passerby
	Gisela Neumann as Passerby
	Martin Olbertz as Arrestee
	Torsten Michaelis as Sentry #1
	Hendrik Arnst as Sentry #2
	Nina Weiss as Variety Dancer #1
	Gloria Wind as Variety Dancer #2
	Marianne Tarnowskij as Variety Dancer #3
	Faye Anderson as Variety Dancer #4
	Lyndsey Stokes as Variety Dancer #5
	Holger Oppenhoff as Bohème Orchestra
	Josef Svoboda as Bohème Orchestra
	Guido Schlösser as Bohème Orchestra
	Rudi Lips as Bohème Orchestra
	Martin Langer as Bohème Orchestra
	Tobias Koch as Bohème Orchestra
	Thomas Bauer as Bohème Orchestra
	Jaymes Butler as Joe (uncredited)
	Marco Klammer as Variety Show Guest (uncredited)
	Sylvia Schwarz as French Woman (uncredited)

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