Synopsis
In 1918, a young, disillusioned Adolf Hitler strikes up a friendship with a Jewish art dealer while weighing a life of passion for art vs. talent at politics
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Cast
- John CusackMax Rothman
- Noah TaylorAdolf Hitler
- Leelee SobieskiLiselore von Peltz
- Molly ParkerNina Rothman
- Kevin McKiddGeorge Grosz
- Yuliya VysotskayaHildegard
- Peter CapaldiDavid Cohn
- Ulrich ThomsenCaptain Mayr
- Janet SuzmanMax's Mother
- David HorovitchMax's Father
Recommandations
- 70
Dallas Observer
Pits good taste against rousing intellectual provocation, and, happily, allows both to win. - 70
New York Magazine (Vulture)
Noah Taylor does startlingly well by this role, but the conceit behind the film is a bizarre piece of wish-fulfillment. - 60
Variety
The film is ultimately too glib in its suggestion that Hitler's discovering his career path was a matter of sheerest chance, even an accident. - 50
Slate
As a ravishingly photographed, high-minded meditation on the potential of art and therapy to exorcise the vilest sort of psychological poison, it is positively riotous -- an Everest of idiocy. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
What does make the film disturbing is the way in which it positions Hitler as a mere mouthpiece for what was already in the air, a role he was convinced to play after suffering one disappointment too many at the hands of Jews like Rothman. - 50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
The whole film occupies pretty much the same continuuum -- glimmers of intelligence followed by moments of outright hysteria punctuated by bouts of sheer haplessness. - 40
L.A. Weekly
Suggests that had young Adolf Hitler managed to get his art show, the Holocaust might never have happened. This seems absurd, not to say insensitive. - 38
New York Daily News
A serious and thoughtful movie that probably does not mean to trivialize the Holocaust and blame the victim. But it is playing with fire nevertheless.
