Max

Name: Max
Director: Menno Meyjes
Released: 2002-01-01

2002 film directed by Menno Meyjes

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Released: 2002
Director: Menno Meyjes
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Screenwriter: Menno Meyjes
Cast: John Cusack
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1.metacritic.com/movie/maxRetrieved 2016-04-09
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, Noah Taylor
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1.metacritic.com/movie/maxRetrieved 2016-04-09
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, Leelee Sobieski
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, Molly Parker
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Runtime: 104 min
Genre: drama film
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2.metacritic.com/movie/maxRetrieved 2016-04-09
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Country of origin: Canada
, United Kingdom
, Hungary
Original language: English

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Max is a 2002 drama film written and directed by Menno Meyjes in his directorial debut. The film stars John Cusack, Noah Taylor, Leelee Sobieski, and Molly Parker. Its plot depicts a fictional friendship between Jewish art dealer Max Rothman and a young Austrian painter, Adolf Hitler; more of which explores Hitler's views that begin to take shape as the Nazi ideology while also studying the artistic and design implications of the Third Reich. It goes on to study the question of what could have been had Hitler been accepted as an artist.

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Director of photography: Lajos Koltai
Title: Max
Color: color
Narrative location: Germany
CNC film rating (France): no age restriction
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1.cnc.fr/professionnels/visas-et-classification/108710
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Distribution format: video on demand
Review score: 56/100(April 12, 2024) review score by: Metacritic · number of reviews/ratings: 30 critic review
69%(October 7, 2021) review score by: Rotten Tomatoes · number of reviews/ratings: 112 critic review
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6.4/10(October 7, 2021) review score by: Rotten Tomatoes
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Different from: Max
Kijkwijzer rating: 12 content descriptor: Violence, Discrimination
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1.kijkwijzer.nl/films/max/Retrieved 2025-07-11
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Set in period: World War II
1910s
20th century
Main subject: Adolf Hitler

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