Max (2002 film)

Max
Theatrical release poster
Directed byMenno Meyjes
Written byMenno Meyjes
Produced byAndras Hamori
Starring
CinematographyLajos Koltai
Edited byChris Wyatt
Music byDan Jones
Production
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Distributed by
Release dates
  • 10 September 2002 (2002-09-10) (TIFF)
  • 20 June 2003 (2003-06-20) (United Kingdom)
  • 25 September 2003 (2003-09-25) (Hungary)
Running time
109 minutes
Countries
  • Canada
  • Hungary
  • United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Box office$539,879

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 and how their visual appeal helped hypnotize the German people. It goes on to study the question of what could have been had Hitler been accepted as an artist.