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.


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Michael Herbig
Hans Zeisig

Jürgen Vogel
Siggi Meyer

Thekla Reuten
Frida von Oorten
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Alexander Senderovich
Jeschow

Valeriy Grishko
Josef Stalin

Juraj Kukura
Wassili Ulrich

Friedrich Karl Praetorius
Jan Hansen

Thomas Thieme
Georgi Dimitroff

Sebastian Blomberg
Karl-Heinz Müller