Hotel Lux
27/10/2011
2h



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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


Michael Herbig
Hans Zeisig


Jürgen Vogel
Siegfried Meyer


Thekla Reuten
Frida von Oorten


Valeriy Grishko
Stalin


Alexander Senderovich
Jeschow


Juraj Kukura
Wassili Ulrich


Thomas Thieme
Georgi Dimitroff


Gennadi Vengerov
Upit


Josef Ostendorf
Mama


Sebastian Blomberg
Karl-Heinz Müller


Sibylle Canonica
Ms. Platten


Axel Wandtke
Walter Ulbricht


Steffi Kühnert
Lotte Kühn


Robert Dölle
Johannes R. Becher


Daniel Wiemer
Herbert Wehner


Matthias Brenner
Wilhelm Pieck


Friedrich Karl Praetorius
Hansen


Johann Adam Oest
Valetti


Uwe Dag Berlin
Hubert Kessel


Yevgeni Sitokhin
Stalin's Translator #1


Steffen Scheumann
Stalin's Translator #2
Jürgen Mikol
Fritz Petter
Julius Felsberg
Karlchen
David Kuhl
Bertchen


Greta Bohacek
Marlene
Leander Haußmann
Stage Manager


Ina Paule Klink
Dancer / Starlet


Arved Birnbaum
Obersturmbannführer


Axel Sichrovsky
SS Man


Holger Handtke
Ribbentrop
Jakob Köhn
Molotow


Krzysztof Dracz
Berija
Samir Osman
NKVD Man #1


Mark Zak
NKVD Man #2
Tomas Jester
NKVD Man #3


Joan Pascu
Delegate


Boris Naujoks
Frida's Comrade


Johanna Penski
Passerby
Jutta Post
Passerby
Gisela Neumann
Passerby


Martin Olbertz
Arrestee


Torsten Michaelis
Sentry #1


Hendrik Arnst
Sentry #2
Nina Weiss
Variety Dancer #1
Gloria Wind
Variety Dancer #2
Marianne Tarnowskij
Variety Dancer #3
Faye Anderson
Variety Dancer #4
Lyndsey Stokes
Variety Dancer #5
Holger Oppenhoff
Bohème Orchestra
Josef Svoboda
Bohème Orchestra
Guido Schlösser
Bohème Orchestra
Rudi Lips
Bohème Orchestra
Martin Langer
Bohème Orchestra
Tobias Koch
Bohème Orchestra
Thomas Bauer
Bohème Orchestra


Jaymes Butler
Joe (uncredited)


Marco Klammer
Variety Show Guest (uncredited)


Sylvia Schwarz
French Woman (uncredited)
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