Hotel Lux

Hotel Lux (2011)

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.

Date of release
2011-10-27
TMDB
5.9 / 10 (49)
Runtime
1h 42m
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Director
Leander Haußmann

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Cologne

Hotel Lux is a 2011 German black comedy film directed by Leander Haußmann. It begins in Nazi Germany and moves to the Soviet Union. Featuring the main character Hans Zeisig, an apolitical comedian, the picture involves him with numerous historical facts and figures of this era.

Background

The film's director, Leander Haußmann, grew up under communism in Quedlinburg, Saxony-Anhalt. The film is dedicated to the director's late father, Ezard Haußmann.

Hotel Lux was in pre-production more than four years; the script was worked on by two screenwriters. Herbig, a popular comedian, actor, and director known as a perfectionist, required more changes before he would sign on. He found the first versions of the script to be "too dramatic, too brutal," but joined the production after a lighter tone was reached. Herbig said he could finally relate to the character, a clueless comedian.

At the Rome Film Festival 2011, German distributor Bavaria Film sold the film to Italian distributor Archibald Films.

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