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Hotel Lux (2011)

Hotel Lux (2011)

Drama Comedy
Release Date: 2011, October 27
Directors: Leander Haußmann
Countries: Germany
Production: 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
Cast: Steffen Scheumann, Sebastian Blomberg, Matthias Brenner, Jaymes Butler, Yevgeni Sitokhin, Mark Zak, Thomas Thieme, Thekla Reuten, Gennadi Vengerov, Hendrik Arnst, Holger Handtke, Torsten Michaelis

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.