Mephisto

hanks to cinematographer Lajos Koltai and art director Jozsef Romvari, Szabo brilliantly recreates the decadent worlds of the cinema/theatre and the inner-circle of the ruling elite in the Weimar and Nazi periods.

The actor is played by Klaus Maria Brandauer, in a performanceof electrifying power; he makes us intensely fascinated by his character...

...exquisitely photographed...