Hotel Lux (2011)

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 NaziBerlin 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 Hitlers personal astrologer But Zeisig quickly realizes that hes 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