Hotel Lux

The story

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.

Cast & crew

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