Hotel Lux
Hotel Lux
Release: 2011-10-27
·Runtime: 102m
·★ 5.8
Comedy
Drama
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.
Production Countries
Germany
Production Companies
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
Thekla Reuten
as Frida von Oorten
Thomas Thieme
as Georgi Dimitroff
Axel Wandtke
as Walter Ulbricht
Steffi Kühnert
as Lotte Kühn
Arved Birnbaum
as Obersturmbannführer
Juraj Kukura
as Wassili Ulrich
Uwe Dag Berlin
as Hubert Kessel
Jaymes Butler
as Joe
Marco Klammer
as Besucher im Varieté
Gennadi Vengerov
as Upit
Axel Sichrovsky
as SS-Mann
Martin Olbertz
as Verhafteter
Sylvia Schwarz
as Französin
Mark Zak
as NKWD-Mann 2
Josef Ostendorf
as Mama
Johann Adam Oest
as Valetti
Sibylle Canonica
as Frau Platten
Joan Pascu
as Delegierter
Boris Naujoks
as Fridas Genosse
Matthias Brenner
as Wilhelm Pieck
Michael Herbig
as Hans Zeisig
Friedrich Karl Praetorius
as Jan Hansen
Daniel Wiemer
as Herbert Wehner
Torsten Michaelis
as Wachsoldat 1
Jürgen Vogel
as Siggi Meyer
Valeriy Grishko
as Josef Stalin
Ina Paule Klink
as Tänzerin / Starlet
Holger Handtke
as Ribbentrop
Sebastian Blomberg
as Karl-Heinz Müller
Leander Haußmann
as Inspizient
Yevgeni Sitokhin
as Stalins Übersetzer 1
Steffen Scheumann
as Stalins Übersetzer 2
Krzysztof Dracz
as Berija
Johanna Penski
as Passantin
Greta Bohacek
as Marlene
Hendrik Arnst
as Wachsoldat 2
