Music Box

Music Box

  • Director: Costa-Gavras
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English, Hungarian
  • Release date: January 19, 1990
  • Runtime: 2 hours 4 minutes
  • Sound mix: Dolby Stereo
  • Aspect ratio: 2.35 : 1
  • Also known as: Die ganze Wahrheit
  • "Music Box" is a crime film directed by Costa Gafras and starring Jessica Lange and Armin Mueller-Stahl.
    The film tells the story of Ann personally defending her father.

    Details

    • Release date January 19, 1990
    • Filming locations Budapest, Hungary
    • Production companies Carolco Pictures

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $6,263,883

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $19,381

    Gross worldwide

    $6,263,883

    Movie reviews

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    • By Juvenal 2022-09-08 15:16:13

      Are people good or bad in an ontological sense?

      Does a good father necessarily make a good employee? The possible divisions and contradictions between people's roles are unfolding in everyone from time to time. I once again lament the western rule of law system, acquitting people does not mean that they really did not commit a crime, but only from the perspective of legal procedures to explain that you have failed to prove your guilt. What kind of rationality can you achieve! The fast cutting of the law is only a helpless solution to...

    • By Shyanne 2022-07-11 23:42:21

      Chinese people will find resonance in it

      The father in the film was once the head of the Hungarian police firing squad during World War II. After the surrender of Germany, he continued to brutally slaughter Jews. Later, he immigrated to the United States and raised his daughter to become an excellent criminal trial defense lawyer. His father's atrocities during World War II were exposed, and the Hungarian government proposed to the U.S. government to extradite him to Hungary for trial. Before the U.S. government agrees to...

    • By Mina 2022-07-11 22:27:37

      Nazis at heart

      At the beginning of the film, the father and daughter dance and live happily. By the way, the son is relatively ordinary and other family members.
      Next, I will introduce the female lawyer's work ability and means. Then cut to the chase and rushed to the old man's house. Here is a sentence, old pants that can't be thrown away, as a hint.
      The old man gradually influenced his grandson.
      Then entered the lawsuit stage, the heroine tried to influence the judge, but failed.
      The...

    • By Annalise 2022-07-11 20:21:43

      heartbreak truth

      After watching the drama "Music Box" by French director Costa Gavras, I couldn't sleep in the long night. A Hungarian immigrant, an old man, raised his children diligently and dutifully in the United States alone, with a harmonious and warm family, but the harmony was broken by a sudden accusation of war criminals. Obviously there is no scene of a bloody massacre, but the witnesses in the court hearing the killing in calm language, but it is chilling and shocking. They were not...

    • By Napoleon 2022-07-11 18:58:16

      the director said

      "Music Box" is a masterpiece by the Greek-French director Costa Gavras, who is famous for his political films. In this film, he again convincingly shows the sharpness and depth of his revealing problems, and also shows his excellent ability to control the language of the film.

      The frame of the film is a story about tracking down Nazi war criminals. Gavras here makes no secret of his usual political perspective. After World War II, many sinful Nazi war criminals fled abroad for...

    User comments

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    • By Krystal 2023-09-03 11:26:52

      It is thought-provoking, whether to hide relatives or destroy relatives in a righteous way, will this choice be left to the audience to choose more...

    • By Shaina 2023-08-02 07:07:59

      You must first study the relationship between the Hungarian Nazi organization "Arrow Cross Party" and the Hungarian Communist Party after the war, in order to understand the key plot. If the ending stops at the time when the heroine destroys the relatives in the righteousness (after revealing the truth to the father) for the war between the relatives, the relatives and the hidden, for example, after writing the letter to JACK and not sending it, it will probably be more... advanced (?...

    • By Christop 2023-07-30 21:49:12

      The process of hearing a case is actually a process of wrestling between all parties. Ideological confrontation makes the truth be covered up, enemies become accomplices, and wicked people become guests. The appearance of the music box was just that, as if the truth suddenly flashed in the...

    • By Jennifer 2023-07-19 12:23:55

      B+: Get a lot of historical poses about the Hungarian Arrow Cross Party. The three courtroom battles in the movie are full of sparks, Lange and Starr's performances are all the rage, and the final confrontation makes people angry and...

    • By Letha 2023-07-15 23:28:06

      Obviously there is no scene of a bloody massacre, but the witnesses in the court hearing the killing in calm language, but it is chilling and shocking. It is undoubtedly a form of torture to let children face the details of various cruel crimes committed by their father 40 years ago, and the unpredictable destruction and puncture take turns to test their endurance. The beloved person you once thought you knew and trusted the most suddenly collapsed in a few days and became a beast. Evidence of...

    Movie plot

    Mike (Armin Mueller-Stahl) is an honest old man. In his early years, his wife unfortunately passed away. After that, Mike raised their daughter Ann (Jessica) alone. · Lange Jessica Lange), life is not easy. Now that Ann has grown up, Mike can finally enjoy his retirement in a down-to-earth way.
    One day, Mike unexpectedly received a subpoena from the United Nations, accusing him of being the execution captain of the Nazi SS and taking...
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    Movie quotes

    • Mack Jones: What do we know about our parents?

    • Jack Burke: You trust your heart, you gonna get it broken.