Directed by:
Leander HaußmannCinematography:
Hagen BogdanskiComposer:
Ralf WengenmayrCast:
Michael Herbig, Jürgen Vogel, Thekla Reuten, Alexander Senderovich, Juraj Kukura, Thomas Thieme, Sebastian Blomberg, Steffi Kühnert, Sibylle Canonica (more)Plots(1)
Berlin, 1930s. Cabaret star Hans Zeisig cracks up his audiences with his Stalin-Hitler-show, but with the political atmosphere changing, he is forced to flee. He sets out for Hollywood, but makes it to Moscow's Hotel Lux instead. (Berlinale)
Cast
Michael Herbig
West Germany
Best movies:
Vicky the Viking (2009)
Four Against the Bank (2016)
Manitou's Shoe (2001)
Jürgen Vogel
West Germany
Best movies:
The Wave (2008)
Life Is All You Get (1997)
Die Kirschenkönigin (2004) (series)
Thekla Reuten
Netherlands
Alexander Senderovich
Best movies:
Hotel Lux (2011)
Juraj Kukura
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Shadows of a Hot Summer (1977)
Kukura (2014) (theatrical recording)
Demeterovci (1976) (TV movie)
Thomas Thieme
Germany
Best movies:
The Lives of Others (2006)
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
Downfall (2004)
Sebastian Blomberg
West Germany
Best movies:
Maximilian & Marie De Bourgogne (2017) (series)
Curveball (2020)
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
Steffi Kühnert
East Germany
Best movies:
Stopped on Track (2011)
The Same Sky (2017) (series)
The White Ribbon (2009)
Sibylle Canonica
Switzerland
Best movies:
Beyond Silence (1996)
The Goldfish (2019)
Hotel Lux (2011)
Josef Ostendorf
West Germany
Best movies:
Goethe! (2010)
Buffalo Soldiers (2001)
Hotel Lux (2011)
Jaymes Butler
USA
Best movies:
Mission: Impossible III (2006)
Snowden (2016)
The Ghost Writer (2010)
Leander Haußmann
East Germany
Best movies:
Sun Alley (1999)
Die Konkurrentin (1997) (TV movie)
Hotel Lux (2011)
Jevgenij Sitočin
Soviet Union
Best movies:
The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
The Final Journey (2017)
4 Days in May (2011)
Greta Bohacek
Germany
Best movies:
La Cérémonie (1995)
Freddy/Eddy (2016)
If Not Us, Who? (2011)
Gennadiy Vengerov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Enemy at the Gates (2001)
Deja vu (1990)
Manta - Der Film (1991)
Matthias Brenner
East Germany
Best movies:
The Lives of Others (2006)
System Crasher (2019)
A Good Boy (2008) (TV movie)
Uwe Dag Berlin
East Germany
Best movies:
Nothing Bad Can Happen (2013)
Sources of Life (2013)
Sun Alley (1999)
Holger Handtke
West Germany
Best movies:
Enemy at the Gates (2001)
The Silent Revolution (2018)
54 Hours (2018) (series)
Ina Paule Klink
East Germany
Best movies:
Hotel Lux (2011)
Der Zürich-Krimi (2016) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Steffen Scheumann
Best movies:
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
The Princess and the Warrior (2000)
Sun Alley (1999)