Mephisto (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: July 21, 2020
- Originally Released: 1981
- Label: Kino Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Klaus Maria Brandauer & Krystyna Janda | |
Directed by | István Szabó |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1981 -
Best Foreign Language Film: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
Difficult subject, but well pulled off. Too long though.
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Empire Magazine
The issue is that the story appears like a simple sketch, which never explores the main subject with depth. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
A superbly modulated, fruitfully ambivalent central performance by Brandauer carries the emotional and intellectual weight of the political dilemma.
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Time Out
Rating: A+ --
Disillusionment takes on a tragically melancholy appearance. What masks are "Mephisto's" audiences wearing today?
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ColeSmithey.com
A disappointingly thin, conventional film.
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Chicago Reader
Few have dared what Brandauer accomplishes: showing us a good actor responding to the same neurotic drive for the center of the stage, the immortalizing role. His is a great performance, nothing less.
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TIME Magazine
4 stars out of 5 -- Brandauer gives a powerhouse performance in this dazzling, cryptic film from director Istvan Szabo...
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Product Description:
In MEPHISTO, an ambitious and talented actor (Klaus Maria Brandauer) on the verge of success marries the daughter of an important official in pre-World War II Germany in order to further his career. As the Nazi influence grows, he discards his wife and uses his new connections to become the head of the National Theatre, while tailoring his art to the fascistic beliefs of his patrons.
Wonderful acting in all roles and a strong, balanced script gives a chilling feel for why millions of people in Germany--not just ambitious, monomaniacal actors--succumbed to the outlandish theatrical appeal of Nazism by showing the more subtle, underlying psychological appeal of fascism itself. Based on a novel by Klaus Mann, the son of Thomas Mann, MEPHISTO, like Visconti's THE DAMNED, which showed the culpability of industrialists in their support of Hitler, dramatically shows the self-deceptive and ultimately evil acts of an artist making his own Faustian bargain.
Wonderful acting in all roles and a strong, balanced script gives a chilling feel for why millions of people in Germany--not just ambitious, monomaniacal actors--succumbed to the outlandish theatrical appeal of Nazism by showing the more subtle, underlying psychological appeal of fascism itself. Based on a novel by Klaus Mann, the son of Thomas Mann, MEPHISTO, like Visconti's THE DAMNED, which showed the culpability of industrialists in their support of Hitler, dramatically shows the self-deceptive and ultimately evil acts of an artist making his own Faustian bargain.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 63,234
- UPC: 738329248703
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