Mephisto

Name: Mephisto
Director: István Szabó
Released: 1981
Cast: Krystyna Janda, Ildikó Bánsági, Péter Andorai, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Rolf Hoppe

by István Szabó2h241981Germany, Hungary, Austria

Recommended byAndreas Dresen

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In early-1930s Germany, a passionate stage actor faces a dilemma: renounce his apolitical stance and comply with the Reich's doctrine, or face oblivion. But, Faustian bargains never end well. What is the price of success?

Cast and crew

Credits
- Directed by : István Szabó
- Screenplay : István Szabó, Péter Dobai
- Décors : József Romvári, János P. Nagy
- Costumes : Ágnes Gyarmathy
- Editor : Zsuzsa Csákány
- Original score : Zdenkó Tamássy
- Œuvre originale : Klaus Mann
- Image : Lajos Koltai
- Production : Manfred Durniok
Technical details
- Printed format : 35 mm
- Year of production : 1981
- Category : Feature film
- Color : Colors
- Language : German, Hungarian

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This film is recommended by
- Andreas Dresen
This film is part of the Cinematographic movement
"New German Cinema 1970-1980"
See the other films of the movement

Mephisto

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Credits

Technical details

Other films

By the same director

Bizalom

Colonel Redl

Lovefilm

From the same year

La Chèvre

Passion

The Night of the Shooting Stars

With the same cast

Krystyna Janda

Dekalog

L'Homme de marbre

The Conductor

Ildikó Bánsági

Bizalom

Péter Andorai

Bizalom

Klaus Maria Brandauer

The Lightship

Colonel Redl

Out of Africa

Rolf Hoppe

I Was Nineteen

Karla

György Cserhalmi

Electra, My Love

This film is recommended by

Andreas Dresen

This film is part of the Cinematographic movement

"New German Cinema 1970-1980"