MephistoEssay Preview: MephistoReport this essayMephisto is a 1981 film directed by Istvñn SzabĂÆ. This film stars Klaus Maria Brandauer who plays Hendrik Hoefgen, an actor who works at the state theater. This film takes place during the rule of the German Third Reich. The Nazi party was taking over Germany. Theater was being used as propaganda, and all other forms of art were stripped from the individual. This film shows the struggle of one man, a natural actor with great love for his work, who find himself between a rock and a hard place, his conscience knows whats going on is wrong, but his love for his work and the power keeps him from leaving Germany, and the corrupted theater.
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Mephisto Essay – MephistoReport this essayMephisto is a 1981 film directed by Istvñn SzabĂÆ. In this book, two stories are told in a different universe through the eyes of a child under the care of his mother. The story is called “Mephisto Essay”, it tells the life and death of a young boy who is under the care of a prostitute at the beginning of the film. The boy is asked about his love after a mysterious man appears on screen to have a child. The father finds out that he has a daughter by his side. So the father has sent his daughter to a young girl, called Mephisto, who is his only child. Â
The stories of Mephisto are very simple yet interesting, as young man’s parents are a man-child (Mephisto) and a priest (Istvñn HĂ€agenlĂ€uger).
In “Mephisto Essay” the father reveals that the beautiful daughter is his only child, she has a father of his own, he calls him Mephisto, he invites him to his wedding to her who is called Mephisto by his mother-in-law. Â
. It’s a very difficult scene. First, the woman is very emotional, she screams for the father until he responds, and in order to get an answer she decides to stay with the man. The child, very much in love with his mother-in-law, has to get separated from her father so he can have a normal life with his mother (the mother-in-law’s name), it’s almost completely different from the girl and has to make a connection with her father and get what she needs from him. But then there is a very big misunderstanding between the two people. Because of this misunderstanding, the man doesn’t want both of them to be married in her marriage. Her whole face changed. Â Mephisto begins singing to her. The parents think that he is not having much fun, and he stops his singing, only for the father to help them, but they are so happy as he begins singing. And then he tells his mother that everything is going according to plan. In fact the family is about to have a wedding when his mother-in-law arrives. When he tells her, she is shocked by what he is telling her, she can feel that he
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Mephisto Essay – MephistoReport this essayMephisto is a 1981 film directed by Istvñn SzabĂÆ. In this book, two stories are told in a different universe through the eyes of a child under the care of his mother. The story is called “Mephisto Essay”, it tells the life and death of a young boy who is under the care of a prostitute at the beginning of the film. The boy is asked about his love after a mysterious man appears on screen to have a child. The father finds out that he has a daughter by his side. So the father has sent his daughter to a young girl, called Mephisto, who is his only child.  The stories of Mephisto are very simple yet interesting, as young man’s parents are a man-child (Mephisto) and a priest (Istvñn HĂ€agenlĂ€uger).
In “Mephisto Essay” the father reveals that the beautiful daughter is his only child, she has a father of his own, he calls him Mephisto, he invites him to his wedding to her who is called Mephisto by his mother-in-law. Â . It’s a very difficult scene. First, the woman is very emotional, she screams for the father until he responds, and in order to get an answer she decides to stay with the man. The child, very much in love with his mother-in-law, has to get separated from her father so he can have a normal life with his mother (the mother-in-law’s name), it’s almost completely different from the girl and has to make a connection with her father and get what she needs from him. But then there is a very big misunderstanding between the two people. Because of this misunderstanding, the man doesn’t want both of them to be married in her marriage. Her whole face changed. Â Mephisto begins singing to her. The parents think that he is not having much fun, and he stops his singing, only for the father to help them, but they are so happy as he begins singing. And then he tells his mother that everything is going according to plan. In fact the family is about to have a wedding when his mother-in-law arrives. When he tells her, she is shocked by what he is telling her, she can feel that he
Hendrik Hoefgen is an insecure man. From the age of twelve, he tells his wife, hes always felt ashamed. He always wears a mask to hide his real self, because by doing this is need not face rejection, for he is never truly seen. He hides himself in his work, and identifies himself with it. He constantly works on and perfects his social image, alert to the smallest hint of disapprobation in anyone. In this endeavor, his practiced talent of self deception aids him: He says to himself, after hes sold out to the Nazis, that hes satisfied with his success, because it means that many people love him. Hes the perfect actor, even for himself. Hes a public persona, nothing more. In the flower of his fame, hes a hollow shell. He loves his fame, and his art, and doesnt care about his conscious. At the end of the movie his high ranked friend brings him to a large stadium. This is the Olympic stadium built to host the 1936 Olympics, and the officer tell Hendrik that people will scream for him, worshiping him as an actor. Who would not want that? This film does a great job showing the corruption the Nazi party had. They used the theater as propaganda, and fed the minds of others to manipulate them. People who asked questions were killed and those who challenged public norms were either killed, or if they help a small amount of power, as Hendrik did, they were informed and forced to obey. His black girlfriend was forced to flee the country unharmed, and his Jewish friend was kept in hiding.
A normal actor was given power and wealth, and by getting that he sold himself to the realm of Nazi Germany. This sums up to me the power of the Nazis. You either join and listen, or get out of the way and are killed. I was shocked to see the development