Max

Max is a 2002 Hungarian/Canadian/British fictional drama film, that depicts a friendship between a Jewish art dealer, Max Rothman, and a young German painter, Adolf Hitler. The film explores Hitler's views which began to take shape under Nazi ideology; while also studying the artistic and design implications of the Third Reich and how their visual appeal helped hypnotize the German people. The film goes on to study the questions of what could hav... more

Max is a 2002 Hungarian/Canadian/British fictional drama film, that depicts a friendship between a Jewish art dealer, Max Rothman, and a young German painter, Adolf Hitler. The film explores Hitler's views which began to take shape under Nazi ideology; while also studying the artistic and design implications of the Third Reich and how their visual appeal helped hypnotize the German people. The film goes on to study the questions of what could have been if Hitler had been more accepted in the art community instead of him developing into an extremist politician. The year is 1918, and Max Rothman (John Cusack), a fictional Munich art dealer, is a veteran of the Third Battle of Ypres, where he lost his right arm during the latter stages of World War I effectively ending his career as a painter. He returns to Germany to attempt to capture the essence of war through art by opening a modern art gallery in an old abandoned locomotive factory. Married to Nina (Molly Parker), but in a... less