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Hotel Lux (2011) [N/A]

Release Date:
October 27, 2011

Original Title:
Hotel Lux

Alternate Titles:
狂人大悶鍋

Genres:
Comedy | Drama

Production Companies:
ARD Degeto
BR
BSI International Invest
Bavaria Film
Bavaria Pictures
Beeplex
Colonia Media Filmproduktions GmbH
Little Shark Entertainment
RBB
Rainer Windhager Film Production
WDR
herbX Film

Production Countries:
Germany

Ratings / Certifications:
DE: 6 

Runtime: 102

Overview from TheMovieDB

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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Production

Art Direction:
Kai Koch

Costume Design:
Ute Paffendorf

Director:
Leander Haußmann

Director of Photography:
Hagen Bogdanski

Editor:
Hansjörg Weißbrich

Idea:
Helmut Dietl
Uwe Timm
Volker Einrauch

Original Music Composer:
Ralf Wengenmayr

Producer:
Corinna Eich
Günter Rohrbach

Production Design:
Uli Hanisch

Screenplay:
Leander Haußmann

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