Backstage at the Hamburg Kunststück, where the lights are bright and the stage is lively, Huffgen, the actor at the theater, is agonizing over being a second-rate actor. Soon the theater invited famous actor Niebuhr as the protagonist, and Niebuhr introduced his girlfriend Barbara to Huffgen. Huffgen begins to pursue Barbara. He came to Berlin through Barbara, and also found his friend Ulrichs to play a revolutionary drama, conquering...
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By Kaitlin 2022-04-07 09:01:08
Mephistopheles with Klaus Mann, Erika Mann, Gustaf Gründgens
In 1981, the Hungarian director Istvan Szabo put the famous novel Mephistopheles by the German writer Klaus Mann on the screen 40 years ago. At that time, the original author had passed away for 30 years, and the famous German actor Gustaf Gründgens, who was mapped in the original work, also appeared on the screen. passed away nearly twenty years.
Gustaf Gründgens (1899-1963), a famous German actor, known as one of the most famous stage actors in Germany throughout the 20th century,...
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By Hilda 2022-04-07 09:01:08
[Film Review] Mephisto (1981) 7.7/10
Hungary's Oscar BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM winner, directed by István Szabó, one of the country's most eminent filmmakers, unlike most pictures depicting a pre-WWII Germany from the standpoint of the dreaded persecuted, like Rainer Werner Fassbinder's DESPAIR (1978), MEPHISTO skews it to an squeaky-clean Caucasian German specimen, Hendrik Hoefgen (Brandauer), an apolitical theater actor in Hamburg,...
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By Lowell 2022-04-07 09:01:08
Who can guarantee that he will not become a "Mephistopheles"
After watching the old movies for a long time, I began to get used to the atmosphere, the texture of the film, the dramatic colors, lighting and performances.
The story is simple to tell, and the ups and downs also took a lot of thought, and there is a degree of relaxation. He did not hesitate to use more than ten minutes to show the relationship between Hofgen and his lover, but shyly used three shots to show his relationship with the woman who persuaded him to leave Germany,...
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By Luis 2022-04-07 09:01:08
The film "Mephisto, 2017"
vividly
shows the fragility of an actor. Hoffgen was a simple, even ambitious and virtuous man, but the times turned him into a complex man. In terms of characterization, I think it is even on the same level as Louis Mahler's "Lacombe Lucien".
But there's a problem with the film, it makes me feel like Hoffgen is different from "most people" from start to finish - not just in his obedience to government dignitaries, but also in... -
By Jeff 2022-04-07 09:01:08
The film "Mephistopheles", co-produced by Hungary and the Federal Republic of Germany, unexpectedly won the title in the competition for the best foreign language film at the 54th Academy Awards in 1982. The film has been screened in 33 cities in the Federal Republic of Germany and most countries in the world, and has achieved great success.
After the release of Mephistopheles, many national newspapers and magazines published comments one after another, praising the film for no lust,...
