Hotel Lux

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.

• Ralf WengenmayrOriginal Music Composer
• Leander HaußmannScreenplay
• Leander HaußmannDirector

• Michael HerbigHans Zeisig
• Jürgen VogelSiegfried Meyer
• Thekla ReutenFrida von Oorten
• Valeriy GrishkoStalin
• Alexander SenderovichJeschow
• Juraj KukuraWassili Ulrich
• Thomas ThiemeGeorgi Dimitroff
• Gennadi VengerovUpit
• Josef OstendorfMama
• Sebastian BlombergKarl-Heinz Müller
• Sibylle CanonicaMs. Platten
• Axel WandtkeWalter Ulbricht