Max (2002)

Directed by

Menno Meyjes

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom, Hungary, Canada

Runtime

1h 44m

Rated

R

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 113 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In the years after World War I, a Jewish art dealer in Munich takes on a struggling young painter named Adolf Hitler as a client. The film explores their conversations about art and politics as Hitler's extreme ideas begin to form.

thoughtfulsomberspeculativeunderstatedhistoricalpsychologicalsoberingdialogue-driven

What happens

Max is a 2002 drama film written and directed by Menno Meyjes in his directorial debut. The film stars John Cusack, Noah Taylor, Leelee Sobieski, and Molly Parker. Its plot depicts a fictional friendship between Jewish art dealer Max Rothman and a young Austrian painter, Adolf Hitler; more of which explores Hitler's views that begin to take shape as the Nazi ideology while also studying the artistic and design implications of the Third Reich. It goes on to study the question of what could have been had Hitler been accepted as an artist. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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