Max (2002)

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Rating: R
Release Date: Dec 27, 2002
Running Time: 109 mins.
Country Of Origin: Hungary
Country Of Origin: Canada
Country Of Origin: United Kingdom
director: Menno Meyjes
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A fictional story which is loosely based upon the post-WWI period when the young Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) was an aspiring painter with a love for the classical periods. Set in 1918, the tale is based on an imagined relationship between young Adolf, and an influential Jewish art dealer and teacher, Max Hoffman, who did not encourage the future Nazi leader's artistic abilities. A discouraged artist, who later scorned modern art, Hitler's interests turn elsewhere--to hatred of Jews, and to Germany's questionable future. The story presents the argument--could one teacher's failure to encourage a young man to pursue his artistic endeavors be part of the root of the terror that came? Would the Holocaust have been prevented if Adolf Hitler had never stopped painting--and thus, was able to channel his creative energy?
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rating January 9, 2003
"You're an awfully hard man to like, Hitler." Few serious films could survive a line like that. Max certainly doesn't. Written by the Oscar-nominated screenwriter Menno Meyjes (The Color Purple), who makes his debut as a director, the film is not a comedy. The young Adolf Hitler, played by Noah Taylor, is not the Führer of Mel Brooks' The Producers -- a Hitler with a song in his heart -- but the painter who might have made it if Max Rothman (John Cusack, trying hard to no avail), a Jewish… Continued
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The story of an artist's unlikely connection with Adolf Hitler in pre-World War II Germany.

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It's 1918 in Munich and Germany has just suffered the humiliating defeat of the Great War. Max Rothman (John Cusack), a once-promising artist, has returned from the war minus an arm and unable to paint. But he is a wealthy man, one of vision and generous spirit, and he opens what becomes a successful gallery in the hopes of furthering the talents of others and exploring emerging trends in art. His… Continued

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Max Rothman
Adolph Hitler
Liselore Von Peltz
Nina Rothman
Captain Mayr
Frau Schmidt
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Nina's Father
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