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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