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.
Credits
Hotel Lux Cast
| Name |
Character |
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Jürgen Vogel
He was 43, now 56 years old
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as Siggi Meyer |
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Matthias Brenner
He was 54, now 67 years old
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as Wilhelm Pieck |
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Thekla Reuten
She was 36, now 49 years old
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as Frida von Oorten |
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Sibylle Canonica
She was 54, now 67 years old
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as Frau Platten |
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Thomas Thieme
He was 63, now 76 years old
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as Georgi Dimitroff |
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Mark Zak
He was 52, now 65 years old
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as NKWD-Mann 2 |
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Michael Herbig
He was 43, now 56 years old
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as Hans Zeisig |
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Yevgeni Sitokhin
He was 52, now 65 years old
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as Stalins Übersetzer 1 |
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Ina Paule Klink
She was 31, now 45 years old
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as Tänzerin / Starlet |
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Steffi Kühnert
She was 48, now 61 years old
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as Lotte Kühn |
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Gennadi Vengerov
He was 52, 55 years old when he died
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as Upit |
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Tomas Jester
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as NKWD-Mann 3 |
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Sebastian Blomberg
He was 39, now 52 years old
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as Karl-Heinz Müller |
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Uwe Dag Berlin
He was 53, now 66 years old
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as Hubert Kessel |
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Krzysztof Dracz
He was 50, now 63 years old
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as Berija |
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Axel Wandtke
He was 52, now 65 years old
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as Walter Ulbricht |
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Juraj Kukura
He was 64, now 77 years old
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as Wassili Ulrich |
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Jaymes Butler
He was 52, now 65 years old
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as Joe |
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Valeriy Grishko
He was 59, now 73 years old
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as Josef Stalin |
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Torsten Michaelis
He was 50, now 63 years old
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as Wachsoldat 1 |
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Daniel Wiemer
He was 35, now 48 years old
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as Herbert Wehner |
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Steffen Scheumann
He was 50, now 63 years old
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as Stalins Übersetzer 2 |
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Friedrich Karl Praetorius
He was 59, now 72 years old
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as Jan Hansen |
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Arved Birnbaum
He was 49, now 62 years old
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as Obersturmbannführer |
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Samir Osman
He was 41, now 54 years old
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as NKWD-Mann 1 |
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Leander Haußmann
He was 52, now 65 years old
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as Inspizient |
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Holger Handtke
He was 43, now 56 years old
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as Ribbentrop |
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Martin Olbertz
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as Verhafteter |
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Hendrik Arnst
He was 61, now 74 years old
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as Wachsoldat 2 |
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Josef Ostendorf
He was 55, now 68 years old
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as Mama |
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Johann Adam Oest
He was 65, 72 years old when he died
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as Valetti |
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Alexander Senderovich
He was 41, now 54 years old
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as Jeschow |
Hotel Lux Crew
| Name |
Department |
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Ralf Wengenmayr as Original Music Composer. He was 46 (now 59) years old
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Sound |
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Ute Paffendorf as Costume Design. |
Costume & Make-Up |
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Helmut Dietl as Idea. He was 67 (70) years old when He died
|
Writing |
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Hagen Bogdanski as Director of Photography. He was 46 (now 59) years old
|
Camera |
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Uli Hanisch as Production Design. He was 44 (now 57) years old
|
Art |
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Uwe Timm as Idea. He was 71 (now 84) years old
|
Writing |
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Leander Haußmann as Director. He was 52 (now 65) years old
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Directing |
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Leander Haußmann as Screenplay. He was 52 (now 65) years old
|
Writing |
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Volker Einrauch as Idea. She was 61 (now 74) years old
|
Writing |
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Kai Koch as Art Direction. He was 24 (now 37) years old
|
Art |
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Corinna Eich as Producer. She was 38 (now 51) years old
|
Production |
