Summer Movies
Director: Leander Haußmann, color, 103 min., 2010/11
Berlin, 1933: Hans Zeisig and Siggi Meyer are a comedy act: At the Varieté Valetti, they do a brilliant parody of Hitler and Stalin - undisturbed by initial attempts to intimidate them. But that can’t go on 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. The Soviet secret service mistakes him for Hitler’s renegade astrologer…
Leander Haußmann was born in Quedlinburg in 1959; his father Ezard was an actor at Berlin’s Volksbühne, the Burgtheater in Vienna and the Schauspielhaus Bochum. After his A-levels, Leander Haußmann completed a printing apprenticeship, before attending the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Art in 1982, where he trained to become an actor. He placed his artistic focus on directing and directed works such as Friedrich Schiller’s “Love and Intrigue”, Henrik Ibsen’s “Nora” and William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”. From 1995 to 2000, Haußmann was artistic director at the Schauspielhaus Bochum and headed productions such as “Measure for Measure” and “Peter Pan”. Haußmann’s feature film debut as a director came with the film SONNENALLEE (1998/99). As an actor, Leander Haußmann starred in JAILBIRDS, among other films. In 2006, he was awarded the DIVA JuryAward for LOVE AND INTRIGUE and NVA.
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