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Synopsis: A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his associates and friends flee or are ground under by the Nazi terror, the popularity of his character supercedes his own existence until he finds that his best performance is keeping up appearances for his Nazi patrons.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): István Szabó
Production: HBO Video
  Won 1 Oscar. Another 13 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.9
Rotten Tomatoes:
79%
UNRATED
Year:
1981
144 min
316 Views


...who will pla y the female

lead in this production.

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Do you mind if my friend

watches the rehearsal?

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I ha ve no objection.

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- Two cognacs, please.

- Yes, director.

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Coming up right awa y.

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Three beers, please.

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There you go.

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Please e x cuse me.

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Please e x cuse me.

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Father Hansemann...

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Hendrik, will we look

lo vely in this pla y?

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We are lo vely.

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Ma y I introduce my best friend,

Barbara Bruckner?

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Nice to meet you.

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What?

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There's a nice smell of

la vender about you.

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Can you smell the la vender, too?

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How shocking, on a man.

But I need it like my daily bread.

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A little on the temples is

as good as a night's sleep.

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Sleep would be better,

but there's no time.

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A beer and a mineral water.

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We'll hear what he has to sa y...

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...use the good bits,

then pla y it our wa y.

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He's good, but old-fashioned.

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The future of Hamburg

Art Theater is me.

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I mean the two of us.

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Most of the pla ys here

are shallow bourgeois stuff.

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But we visualize theater

that will involve e veryone...

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...the workers, the dockers.

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Where will you perform this theater?

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It doesn't matter.

I n the docks, factories, cellars.

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The y asked me about the pla y.

We promised it for last week.

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Let's get this opening night o ver first.

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We must pro ve that theater

has a political function.

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Before it can be political or

re volutionary, it first has to be good.

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Which actors will be in

this sort of theater?

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All who think like us. Even workers.

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