Max (2002)
Country: HUN/CAN/GB
Technical: col 108m
Director: Menno Meyjes
Cast: John Cusack, Noah Taylor, Molly Parker, David Horovitch, Janet Suzman, Peter Capaldi, LeeLee Sobieski, Ulrich Thomsen
Synopsis:
Munich in the aftermath of WWI: one-armed veteran and art dealer Max Rothman encourages the diffident, embittered Adolf Hitler in his artistic ambitions, but it is his oratorical skills that are finally enlisted for propaganda purposes by the army.
Review:
A brave attempt to exmaine the character of Hitler through a fictionalized version of his formative years; for the most part successful in as much as it neither tames nor ridicules the monstrosity of his ideas by rendering them understandable. Cusack plays with his customary insouciance but it is Taylor who fascinates in his no-holds-barred portrayal of a megalomaniac we dared not know before.
Country: HUN/CAN/GB
Technical: col 108m
Director: Menno Meyjes
Cast: John Cusack, Noah Taylor, Molly Parker, David Horovitch, Janet Suzman, Peter Capaldi, LeeLee Sobieski, Ulrich Thomsen
Synopsis:
Munich in the aftermath of WWI: one-armed veteran and art dealer Max Rothman encourages the diffident, embittered Adolf Hitler in his artistic ambitions, but it is his oratorical skills that are finally enlisted for propaganda purposes by the army.
Review:
A brave attempt to exmaine the character of Hitler through a fictionalized version of his formative years; for the most part successful in as much as it neither tames nor ridicules the monstrosity of his ideas by rendering them understandable. Cusack plays with his customary insouciance but it is Taylor who fascinates in his no-holds-barred portrayal of a megalomaniac we dared not know before.
Country: HUN/CAN/GB
Technical: col 108m
Director: Menno Meyjes
Cast: John Cusack, Noah Taylor, Molly Parker, David Horovitch, Janet Suzman, Peter Capaldi, LeeLee Sobieski, Ulrich Thomsen
Synopsis:
Munich in the aftermath of WWI: one-armed veteran and art dealer Max Rothman encourages the diffident, embittered Adolf Hitler in his artistic ambitions, but it is his oratorical skills that are finally enlisted for propaganda purposes by the army.
Review:
A brave attempt to exmaine the character of Hitler through a fictionalized version of his formative years; for the most part successful in as much as it neither tames nor ridicules the monstrosity of his ideas by rendering them understandable. Cusack plays with his customary insouciance but it is Taylor who fascinates in his no-holds-barred portrayal of a megalomaniac we dared not know before.