German Newsletter

Esteemed clients, dear friends of ARRI,

Enclosed, please find the most recent edition of the ARRI Film & TV newsletter, this time to announce the theatrical release of Hotel Lux from the highly acclaimed German director Leander Haußmann. Hotel Lux is a film about a momentous time in history, and a German comedian who wanted to go to Hollywood but had to flee Germany and ended up in Moscow's Hotel Lux, an establishment frequented by expats, where he gets caught between feuding communist factions.

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All the best,

Angela Reedwisch and Josef Reidinger

OPENING IN GERMAN THEATERS OCTOBER 27, 2011: HOTEL LUX

Director: Leander Haußmann Screenplay: Leander Haußmann (based on ideas from Uwe Timm and Volker Einrauch) DoP: Hagen Bogdanski Editor: Hansjörg Weißbrich Production Company: Günter Rohrbach / Bavaria Pictures Produktion German Distributor: Constantin Filmverleih     ARRI Services: Lab, Digital Cinema Mastering

In December 2010, Director Leander Haußmann (Sun Alley, Berlin Blues, Dinosaurier - Gegen uns seht Ihr alt aus!) shot Hotel Lux  in Berlin and North Rhine-Westphalia. It is a tragic yet funny and adventure-filled story about a naïve, swashbuckling man who reluctantly becomes a hero during dark times. Leander Haußmann also wrote the screenplay based on ideas by Uwe Timm and Volker Einrauch. Hagen Bogdanski (The Lives of Others, Hilde) was the DoP. Hotel Lux is a Günter Rohrbach / Bavaria Pictures production, produced by Günter Rohrbach and Corinna Eich. Constantin Film is releasing the film in Germany.

Constantin Filmverleih entrusted ARRI Film & TV with the production of release prints and the Digital Cinema Mastering.

Left: Jeschow (Alexander Senderovich) and Hans Zeisig (Michael Bully Herbig); Right: A complicated love affair: Frida (Thekla Reuten) believes in the revolution, Zeisig believes in Hollywood.

Left: Hans Zeisig and Siggi Meyer (Jürgen Vogel); Right: The long road to becoming a revolutionary. Thekla Reuten as Frida van Oorten. © 2011 Bavaria Pictures

He wants to go to Hollywood but ends up in Moscow, where he becomes Stalin's astrologer.

Berlin 1938. Hans Zeisig (Michael Bully Herbig) has made one Hitler joke too many and now the comedian and Stalin impersonator has to flee Nazi Berlin with forged papers. His dream is to go to Hollywood but instead, he ends up in Moscow in the infamous Hotel Lux: a place frequented by expats and a sanctuary for communists from all over the world, especially Germany. Soon, the Soviet secret service mistakes Zeisig for Hitler's personal astrologer. That's how the apolitical entertainer gets caught in the middle of a bloody intrigue that is unfolding among the ranks in Josef Stalin's organization. But, at the Hotel Lux, Zeisig, to his great surprise, also runs into some familiar faces: his old friend and former acting partner, the Jewish Hitler impersonator Siggi Meyer (Jürgen Vogel), and the Dutch resistance fighter Frida van Oorten (Thekla Reuten), both of whom firmly believe in the communist cause. There, at the Hotel Lux, the three friends become embroiled in events that could cost them their lives.