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.
Hans Zeisig
Siegfried Meyer
Frida von Oorten
Stalin
Jeschow
Wassili Ulrich
Georgi Dimitroff
Upit
Mama
Karl-Heinz Müller
Ms. Platten
Walter Ulbricht
Lotte Kühn
Johannes R. Becher
Herbert Wehner
Wilhelm Pieck
Hansen
Valetti
Hubert Kessel
Stalin's Translator #1
Stalin's Translator #2
Fritz Petter
Karlchen
Bertchen
Marlene
Stage Manager
Dancer / Starlet
Obersturmbannführer
SS Man
Ribbentrop
Molotow
Berija
NKVD Man #1
NKVD Man #2
NKVD Man #3
Delegate
Frida's Comrade
Passerby
Passerby
Passerby
Arrestee
Sentry #1
Sentry #2
Variety Dancer #1
Variety Dancer #2
Variety Dancer #3
Variety Dancer #4
Variety Dancer #5
Bohème Orchestra
Bohème Orchestra
Bohème Orchestra
Bohème Orchestra
Bohème Orchestra
Bohème Orchestra
Bohème Orchestra
Joe (uncredited)
Variety Show Guest (uncredited)
French Woman (uncredited)