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.
Cast
- Michael Herbig as Hans Zeisig
- Jürgen Vogel as Siegfried Meyer
- Thekla Reuten as Frida von Oorten
- Valeriy Grishko as Stalin
- Alexander Senderovich as Jeschow
- Juraj Kukura as Wassili Ulrich
- Thomas Thieme as Georgi Dimitroff
- Gennadi Vengerov as Upit
- Josef Ostendorf as Mama
- Sebastian Blomberg as Karl-Heinz Müller