Mephisto

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Call Number: DVD FLC-GER Mephisto
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Based on the novel by Klaus Mann.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1981 in Hungary.
Klaus Maria Brandauer, Ildikó Bánsági, Krystyna Janda, Rolf Hoppe.
An actor of the Art Theatre Company of Hamburg, who subordinates everything to his success, befriends a principal figure in the Nazi power machinery and is drawn into the poisonous circle of evil from which he can no longer escape.
DVD.
In German with English subtitles.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

boring. Had to skip many scenes. submitted by Tassos on March 31, 2022, 4:55pm ambitious but boring script. Too many scenes that offer too little, so I just skipped them.

Playing to the choir submitted by tarascon on June 25, 2023, 10:08am A revelatory film about those who assume they’ll remain safe and unharmed when playing with fire—a moral tale of users who lack moral ethics. And a brilliant interpretation of the “Faust theme” (with a twist).
Think on this: fascism is theater.

For those with the fortitude to double down on films about quislings, this movie’s a good companion piece to Bertolucci’s “The Conformist.”