Hotel Lux

Overview

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.



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Michael Herbig

Michael Herbig

Hans Zeisig
Jürgen Vogel

Jürgen Vogel

Siggi Meyer
Thekla Reuten

Thekla Reuten

Frida von Oorten
Alexander Senderovich

Alexander Sende

Jeschow
Valeriy Grishko

Valeriy Grishko

Josef Stalin
Juraj Kukura

Juraj Kukura

Wassili Ulrich

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