A comedy set both in Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia? It seems like a bold - perhaps even foolhardy - move but that's exactly what director Leander Haußmann has done with Hotel Lux.Following the life of a stage and screen comedian who wants to flee war-era Germany for America but has to settle for Russia when he can't land the required paperwork, Hotel Lux is every bit as polished and classy a reconstruction of a bygone era as what Michel Hazanavicius presents in his OSS117 films and The Artist. In 1938, Hans Zeisig, an apolitical comedian, impersonator and cabaret actor, flees with a Russian passport (instead of an American one which he would have preferred) from Nazi Berlin, and finds himself in the legendary...
- 9/2/2011
- Screen Anarchy
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