Hotel Lux (2011)
Comedy • Drama • 1ч 42м
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.
TMDB rating:
5.8
(47)
Cast
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
Friedrich Karl Praetorius
Hansen
Johann Adam Oest
Valetti
Uwe Dag Berlin
Hubert Kessel
Yevgeni Sitokhin
Stalin's Translator #1
Steffen Scheumann
Stalin's Translator #2
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Jürgen Mikol
Fritz Petter
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Julius Felsberg
Karlchen
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David Kuhl
Bertchen
Crew
Helmut Dietl
Idea
Ute Paffendorf
Costume Design
Ralf Wengenmayr
Original Music Composer
Corinna Eich
Producer
Kai Koch
Art Direction
Leander Haußmann
Screenplay
Uli Hanisch
Production Design
Uwe Timm
Idea
Leander Haußmann
Director
Volker Einrauch
Idea
Günter Rohrbach
Producer
Hansjörg Weißbrich
Editor
Hagen Bogdanski
Director of Photography
Georg Korpas
Makeup Artist
Kitty Kratschke
Makeup Artist
Katharina Nädelin
Makeup Artist
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