
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 as Hans Zeisig

Jürgen Vogel as Siggi Meyer

Thekla Reuten as Frida von Oorten

Alexander Senderovich as Jeschow

Valeriy Grishko as Josef Stalin

Juraj Kukura as Wassili Ulrich

Friedrich Karl Praetorius as Jan Hansen

Thomas Thieme as Georgi Dimitroff

Sebastian Blomberg as Karl-Heinz Müller

Axel Wandtke as Walter Ulbricht

Steffi Kühnert as Lotte Kühn

Jürgen Mikol as Fritz Petter

Leander Haußmann as Inspizient

Arved Birnbaum as Obersturmbannführer

Daniel Wiemer as Herbert Wehner

Gennadi Vengerov as Upit

Josef Ostendorf as Mama

Sibylle Canonica as Frau Platten

Matthias Brenner as Wilhelm Pieck

Johann Adam Oest as Valetti

Uwe Dag Berlin as Hubert Kessel

Yevgeni Sitokhin as Stalins Übersetzer 1

Steffen Scheumann as Stalins Übersetzer 2

Julius Felsberg as Karlchen

David Kuhl as Bertchen

Greta Bohacek as Marlene

Ina Paule Klink as Tänzerin / Starlet

Axel Sichrovsky as SS-Mann

Holger Handtke as Ribbentrop

Jakob Köhn as Molotow

Krzysztof Dracz as Berija

Samir Osman as NKWD-Mann 1

Mark Zak as NKWD-Mann 2

Tomas Jester as NKWD-Mann 3

Joan Pascu as Delegierter

Boris Naujoks as Fridas Genosse

Johanna Penski as Passantin

Jutta Post as Passantin

Gisela Neumann as Passantin

Martin Olbertz as Verhafteter

Torsten Michaelis as Wachsoldat 1

Hendrik Arnst as Wachsoldat 2

Nina Weiss as Varietétänzerin 1

Gloria Wind as Varietétänzerin 2

Marianne Tarnowskij as Varietétänzerin 3

Faye Anderson as Varietétänzerin 4

Lyndsey Stokes as Varietétänzerin 5

Holger Oppenhoff as Mitglied des Bohèmeorchesters

Josef Svoboda as Mitglied des Bohèmeorchesters

Guido Schlösser as Mitglied des Bohèmeorchesters

Rudi Lips as Mitglied des Bohèmeorchesters

Martin Langer as Mitglied des Bohèmeorchesters

Tobias Koch as Mitglied des Bohèmeorchesters

Thomas Bauer as Mitglied des Bohèmeorchesters

Jaymes Butler as Joe

Marco Klammer as Besucher im Varieté

Sylvia Schwarz as Französin
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