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Max

Year:
Duration:
106 min
Genres:
Drama | War
IMDB rate:
6.6
Director:
Menno Meyjes
Awards:
2 wins & 5 nominations
Details
Country: Hungary
Release Date: 2003-05-08
Filming Locations: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
Earnings
Budget: $11,000,000
Opening Weekend: $30,157 (USA) (29 December 2002)
Gross: $527,019 (USA) (2 March 2003)
Cast
Actor
Character
John Cusack
Max Rothman
Noah Taylor
Adolf Hitler
Molly Parker
Nina Rothman
Ulrich Thomsen
Captain Mayr
David Horovitch
Max's Father
Janet Suzman
Max's Mother
András Stohl
NCO
John Grillo
Nina's Father
Krisztián Kolovratnik
Nina's Brother
Peter Capaldi
David Cohn
Yuliya Vysotskaya
Hildegard
János Kulka
Mr. Epp
Kata Pálfi
Mrs. Epp (as Katalin Pálfy)
Kevin McKidd
George Grosz
Heather Cameron-McLintock
Ada Rothman (as Heather Cameron)
Joel Pitts
Paul Rothman
Tamás Lengyel
Franz
Attila Árpa
Wilhelm
Daisy Haggard
Heidi
Gábor Harsai
Waiter
Paul Rattray
Hans
Derek Hagen
Fritz
Caroleen Feeney
Saleslady
Mike Kelly
Herr Wulf
Ben O'Brien
Herr Eichinger (as Ben O'Brian)
Agnes Becsei
Singing Girl
Tibor Soltenszky
Antique Dealer
Kerric Macdonald
Heckler in Courtyard
Matt Devere
Freikorps Thug
Judit Hernádi
Frau Schmidt
Kerry Shale
Dr. Levi
Heather Hermant
Mrs. Levi
László Borbély
Erich
Peter Linka
Soldier in Courtyard
László Görög
Someone in Crowd
Andor Tímár
Ritter von Lieberfelt
John Rado
Organizer (as Janos Rado)
Tamás Puskás
Sidewalk Cafe Owner
Pandora Colin
Max's Sister-in-Law
Robert Frohlich
Rabbi (as Rabbi Robert Frohlich)
Róbertne Bánky
Puppeteer
Miklós Dörögdy
Puppeteer
Mariann Kovács
Puppeteer
Péter Bognár
Puppeteer
István Erdös
Puppeteer
Robert Whitelock
Radio Announcer (uncredited)
Did you know?
Trivia
Writer/director Menno Meyjes reports that before the script was written, Steven Spielberg's Amblin company was interested in the project. But Spielberg told Meyjes he couldn't bring himself to help make a movie he thought would dishonor Holocaust survivors. Nevertheless, he considered the script an excellent one and encouraged the director to push for its realization, but without Amblin.
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To help get this controversial movie financed, producer/star John Cusack took no salary for acting in the lead role.
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Goofs
During an early scene in the steelworks/gallery a worker is shown cutting up a locomotive for scrap. He is using an arc welder which was not in use until the second world war.
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When Captain Mayr invites Adolf Hitler to speak in front of the Nationalist Socialist Party, he mentions that they number "500 men or so". The party actually only had around 50 members at this time and Hitler was given the number 555 when he became a member simply because the numbering system started at 500.
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The NSDAP did not exist in 1918. Hitler changed the party name DAP for NSDAP two years later - in 1920.
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Quotes
Max Rothman: So you're an anti-Semite.
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Max Rothman: I've seen the future. Believe me, it came straight at us. There's no future in the future.
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Max Rothman: You're an awfully hard man to like, Hitler, but I'm gonna try. Because if I've learned anything over the past four years, it's that we all shit the same, scream the same, and die the same.
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Photos from cast
Leelee Sobieski Anna Nygh
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