Directed by:
István SzabóCinematography:
Lajos KoltaiCast:
Klaus Maria Brandauer, Krystyna Janda, Ildikó Bánsági, Rolf Hoppe, György Cserhalmi, Péter Andorai, Karin Boyd, Christine Harbort, Tamás Major (more)VOD (1)
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The German actor Hendrik Höfgen is driven by immense ambition in the thirties' Germany. In the theatre of Homburg he prepares himself for the great task by tremendous efforts. He marries the rich Barbara Bruckner and goes to Berlin. Finally he can play the dream of his life, Mephisto in Faust. After the great success all his thoughts and time are occupied by the stage, not realising how he commits himself more and more to the Nazi. He is nominated to be the intendant of the Prussian State Theatre by the General who seems to be paving the way for Höfgen's carrer. His wife leaves Germany, his Jewish friend disappears, his half-blood girlfriend is expelled, the General humiliates him cruelly. His friends want to rescue him from Germany, but he stays on: he keeps on stepping upwards to the top of the artistic career. In his life he is not Mephisto, rather Faust, entering into a blind agreement with the devil. Fear grasps him for the first time when the General lets him be illuminated by the mighty, powerful reflectors in the enormous stadium, the new theatre of the Nazi under construction. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Vilmos Kun
Kingdom of Hungary
Best movies:
Mephisto (1981)
Diary for My Loves (1987)
Sunshine (1999)
János Dömölky
Kingdom of Hungary
Best movies:
Mephisto (1981)
György Bánffy
Kingdom of Hungary
Best movies:
The Fifth Seal (1976)
Mephisto (1981)
The Falcons (1970)
Hans Ulrich Laufer
German Empire
Best movies:
Les Misérables (1958)
Mephisto (1981)
Liberation: Breakthrough (1970)
Mónika Bognár
Best movies:
Mephisto (1981)
Ildikó Kishonti
Hungary
Best movies:
Mephisto (1981)
A Very Moral Night (1977)
Football of the Good Old Days (1973)
Mária Bisztrai
Romania
Best movies:
Mephisto (1981)
Sándor Lukács
Hungary
Best movies:
Mephisto (1981)
Virtually A Virgin (2008)
Hungarian Vagabond (2004)
Ágnes Bánfalvy
Hungary
Ida Versényi
Kingdom of Hungary
Best movies:
Mephisto (1981)
The Witness (1969)
Love (1971)
István Komlós
Best movies:
Mephisto (1981)
Oh, Bloody Life (1984)
We Never Die (1993)
Zdzislaw Mrozewski
Poland
Best movies:
Mephisto (1981)
Birth Certificate (1961)
Westerplatte Resists (1967)
Stanislava Strobachová
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Mephisto (1981)
Divá Bára (1949)
The Little Herdsman from the Valley (1983)
Károly Ujlaky
Kingdom of Hungary
Best movies:
Narcissus and Psyche (1980)
Mephisto (1981)
Tamás Balikó
Hungary
Best movies:
Mephisto (1981)
Glass Tiger (2001)
Chameleon (2008)
Ödön Rubold
Hungary
Best movies:
Mephisto (1981)
Oh, Bloody Life (1984)
Diary for My Children (1984)
István Palotai
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Mephisto (1981)
Bertalan Papp
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Mephisto (1981)
The Fortress (1979)
Budapest Tales (1977)
Katalin Fráter
Hungary
Best movies:
Mephisto (1981)
Budapest Tales (1977)
Mária Fekete
Kingdom of Hungary
Best movies:
Mephisto (1981)