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7:00 PM

Hotel Lux

Film|KINO/16 - Uni-kino

  • The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

  • Language All films are shown with English subtitles (except for English dialogues)
  • Price Free Admission
  • Part of series: KINO/16 - recent German film productions

Hotel Lux ©Goethe-Institut

Hotel Lux ©Goethe-Institut

Director: Leander Haussmann, 2011, 103 mins

Berlin, 1933: Hans Zeisig and Siggi Meyer are a comedy act: At the Varieté Valetti, they do a brilliant parody of Hitler and Stalin - unperturbed by initial attempts to intimidate them. But that will not go on for much longer. Meyer goes into hiding in the Resistance, gets caught and is taken to a concentration camp. Zeisig is forced to flee with a false passport and ends up in Moscow, in the notorious immigrants’ hotel Lux…