Mephisto (UK)

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Review of Mephisto
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David Beckett

Winner of the Best Foreign Film Oscar in 1982
Certificate: 15
Running Time: 140 mins
Retail Price: £15.99
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Content Type: Movie

Synopsis:
As the Nazis rise to power, German actor Hendrik Hoefgen (Klaus Maria Brandauer) faces a stark choice, political compliance or professional outer darkness. So eager is Hoefgen for applause that he opts for the former and becomes a star of the Nazi propaganda machine. But in pre-World War II Germany, there is a terrible price to pay for selling one`s soul to the devil.

Director István Szabó`s sensual adaptation of Klaus Mann`s 1936 novel features a tour-de-force performance from Brandauer described by the Guardian as an "extraordinary actor" and the film as "compellingly brilliant".

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