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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.
Theatrical
Dec 20, 2011
Director
Writer
Producers
Günter Rohrbach, Corinna Eich
Music
Studio
Bavaria Pictures, Colonia Media Filmproduktions GmbH, Little Shark Entertainment, Bavaria Film, BSI International Invest, Beeplex, Rainer Windhager Film Production, RBB, WDR, BR, ARD Degeto, herbX film
Original Language
German
Cast
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Michael Herbig
Hans Zeisig
J
Jürgen Vogel
Siegfried Meyer
T
Thekla Reuten
Frida von Oorten
V
Valeriy Grishko
Stalin
A
Alexander Senderovich
Jeschow
J
Juraj Kukura
Wassili Ulrich
T
Thomas Thieme
Georgi Dimitroff
G
Gennadi Vengerov
Upit
J
Josef Ostendorf
Mama
S
Sebastian Blomberg
Karl-Heinz Müller
S
Sibylle Canonica
Ms. Platten
A
Axel Wandtke
Walter Ulbricht
S
Steffi Kühnert
Lotte Kühn
R
Robert Dölle
Johannes R. Becher
D
Daniel Wiemer
Herbert Wehner
M
Matthias Brenner
Wilhelm Pieck
F
Friedrich Karl Praetorius
Hansen
J
Johann Adam Oest
Valetti
U
Uwe Dag Berlin
Hubert Kessel
Y
Yevgeni Sitokhin
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