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8 May 2003 (Netherlands) moreTagline:
Art + Politics = PowerPlot:
A film studying the depiction of a friendship between an art dealer named Rothman and his student, Adolf Hitler. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
2 wins & 4 nominations moreNewsDesk:
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Jewish Leaders Say Hitler Film Is Good (From WENN. 20 December 2002)
Cusack To Star In Hitler Movie
(From WENN. 21 May 2002)
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not bad, but misunderstood moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| John Cusack | ... | Max Rothman | |
| Noah Taylor | ... | Adolf Hitler | |
| Leelee Sobieski | ... | Liselore von Peltz | |
| Molly Parker | ... | Nina Rothman | |
| Ulrich Thomsen | ... | Captain Mayr | |
| David Horovitch | ... | Max's Father | |
| Janet Suzman | ... | Max's Mother | |
| András Stohl | ... | NCO | |
| John Grillo | ... | Nina's Father | |
| Anna Nygh | ... | Nina's Mother | |
| Krisztián Kolovratnik | ... | Nina's Brother | |
| Peter Capaldi | ... | David Cohn | |
| Yuliya Vysotskaya | ... | Hildegard | |
| János Kulka | ... | Mr. Epp | |
| Katalin Pálfy | ... | Mrs. Epp |
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Australia:M | Netherlands:12 | Singapore:NC-16 (original rating) | Singapore:PG (edited for re-rating) | USA:R | UK:15Fun Stuff
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To help get this controversial movie financed, producer/star John Cusack took no salary for acting in the lead role. moreGoofs:
Anachronisms: The family gathers to listen to the reports of the Armistice Agreement Terms on a radio. However, broadcasting in Germany didn't start until 1923 and was strictly experimental and limited before that. This scene took place in 1918. moreQuotes:
Liselore Von Peltz: Where's your wife?Max Rothman: Waiting for her entrance, I suppose.
Liselore Von Peltz: And where does that leave me?
Max Rothman: Talented, with options.
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Overall, I would say the film wasn't bad. Full marks for embracing the radical concept that Hitler was a human being.
Reading many of the comments posted here, I would say that the film has been somewhat misunderstood. Understandably, the viewers focus on the portrayal of Hitler. But the film is titled "Max", not "Adolf." Max, the art dealer, is the focal character of the story, not Hitler. I think that the film shows the blindness of so many Germans in the interwar years, people who saw what they wanted to see in Hitler and ignored the rest. Max saw Hitler as an amusing ex-soldier artist and futurist, and brushed off the ideology underlying his futurist visions. Max is emblematic of an army that saw his desire to rearm and ignored the ideology that would strip the army of its historic identity, of business owners who saw his committment to controling labor but ignored the ideology which would also put a stranglehold on business, of ordinary Germans who saw a strong leader to deal with their country's problems but ignored his desire for war and conquest. As recently pointed out in Woody Allen's "Anything Else", there were German Jews who supported Hitler, because they saw a strong leader. To me, "Max" is the story of the blindness that overcame so many Germans, blindness that paved the way for Hitler's rise to power.
I've read in a few comments that Hitler claims, in the film, to have not been anti-Semitic. That is not correct. Rather, as he says in the barracks, he opposes "emotional" anti-Semitism. In his mind, anti-Semitism should be based on "scientific" fact rather than raw emotions. To him, it is a self-evident truth arrived at logically by observing the Jews and their ways. This is historically correct. His big anti-Semitic speech at the end of the film is taken straight out of Mein Kampf, and shows this approach.